Ken Cuccinelli's Statue of Liberty suggestion is a parody of Trumpian bigotry and ignorance | By JillFilipovic for CNNOpinion
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Jill FilipovicInstead of reading"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," Cuccinelli suggested--in answer to a reporter's question about whether he agreed with Lazarus's poem--that maybe it should say,"Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.
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