It's not just the cruelty

Cruelty is the point.

Also: Altering Emma Lazarus for right-wing politics is assholery of the highest order. You’ve got to be F’n kidding me here.

“A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles.” https://t.co/ICg0MJTGuO

— Jason Griffey (@griffey) August 13, 2019

Cuccinelli also said the law the Administration is now using to punish immigrants, was passed (first version, anyway) at the time the plaque was put on the Statue of Liberty, so there, libs!

He really is clueless, as well as being a racist xenophobe.  Economic insecurity takes such strange forms, doesn't it?

Disgusting. At first I thought this was a joke. I'm glad Emma Lazarus's poem in the Statue of Liberty is etched in stone, so that it can outlast this nativist, anti-immigrant, anti-poor, anti-American poison. Btw, those 600 people rounded up by ICE this weekend were working. https://t.co/9aOWeWxpta

— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) August 13, 2019

And yes, it's also the racism:

Sigh.
Have fought many battles over the public charge rules over the years. Here's a thread on what frequently gets lost in the argument:
1) immigrants tend to use fewer benefits then natives of the U.S. So there's no actual problem here needing to be solved. https://t.co/kx2exkCNCM

— Cecilia Muñoz (@cecmunoz) August 13, 2019