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Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Obviously only rich people are allowed in, right?

But tbh, it wouldn't surprise me if the poem was only meant to include white people. The rich, wealthy people of yore were known to be hypocritical (kinda like today's people, actually...)- the biggest case in point would be the American Revolution. "Oh hey, we wanna be free from British rule. But owning slaves is still cool, right?"

Obviously not every person was/is like that, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the poem was meant for whites only.
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