IMMIGRATION in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Has anyone heard this before? "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Emma Lazarus poem “The New Colossus” 1883

HOW DOES THIS POEM RELATE TO A GIFT GIVEN BY FRANCE TO THE U.S. IN 1886?

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many immigrants passed this on their way into the US

The Colossus of Rhodes v. “The New Colossus”

Now back to the original quote... "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"