The New Colossus” is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) … [written] in 1883 … as a donation to an auction of ...

The poem reads, in part, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” ...

He said the welcoming words from the 1903 plaque at the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, your poor," were put there "at almost the same time" as when the first public charge law was passed ...

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” These noble words, penned by poet Emma Lazarus, are cast at the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.

In a 2019 interview with CNN, he said, “Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.” ...