那时的美国是欢迎移民的。自由女神像的台基上这样刻着：把无家可归，颠簸流离的人， 把他们交给我， 我在这金门之侧举灯相迎！

"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-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"