Should Immigrants Be Allowed In America

The Statue of Liberty, who is also known as the Mother of Exiles, shows the sign the exiles of their countries are welcome is the United States, and they can be given a second chance at create a better life for them and their families (Lazarus). A question stands now about whether or not we should start restricting the people who come to the United States today. If we wished to restrict everyone coming to America from their countries that would break what the Statue of Liberty’s point of existence most people would say off the back, but last time some people remember she only stood for the exiles of other countries. If the lives of all the immigrants that come to the United States are truly exiles then that would mean that all of them had a difficult life and struggled everyday to live. If this many people are coming here because of that reason then the country they came from sure must run a terrible government system to handle their people. So are all the immigrants coming to America actually exiles, or are there some who come here so they can just live here. If the people who come here just to live here had good lives in their countries then they are not exiles. Looking at what exile means it says “the state of being barred from one's native country”, so are all the people who come to America like this. In order for
The United States though is known as the melting pot of culture, and for us to put up a wall and stop immigration would cause us not to be that melting pot anymore. So instead of building this wall we should look to revise our meaning in the Statue of Liberty and make it to where we truly understand its meaning so we can reduce the number of immigrants that are coming in while also being able to maintain the purpose of the Mother of Exiles. Immigration was something that we wanted before, but now it is an issue that some people want to