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So these Europeans weren’t actually “poor” when Lazarus wrote “poor,” and this somehow excludes the poem from applying to immigrants from Central America?? And we’ve completely done away with “class-based societies” in this country?? Got it, great!

When asked about Lazarus’ poem at a press conference on Monday, Cuccinelli said he wasn’t prepared to make any changes to the inscription on the statue. But yesterday morning, during an interview with NPR, he conspicuously added the words “public charge” to the poem.