Maybe They Need a New Poetry Contest?

Link via Jeffrey at Library Chronicles. CNN reports on the "reopening" of the Statue of Liberty. Well, it's sort of reopening. You can go to Liberty Island, provided you successfully pass through a security screening at Battery Park. Additonal screenings take place at the island (and Ellis Island), including "device that blows air through clothing and tests for evidence of explosive particles."

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free citizens, your nationals from "friendly countries," your carefully and thoroughly vetted B-2 visa tourists that haven't overextended their stay, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore Cubans, Canadians, Europeans, (especially athletes and actors) some Mexicans and Central Americans (for hard labor that we don't want to do), BUT NOT YOUR HATIANS, and watch any Arabs like a hawk, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,--well, on second thought, nah, don't send them, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Anyone without documentation is hereby under arrest! Have a nice day, and enjoy your freedom.