'I think the Statue of Liberty is weeping': Wearing a pin depicting the famous landmark, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright reacted to remarks by Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Washington Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said acting Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli suggesting that only immigrants who can"stand on their own two feet" are welcome in the United States is"completely un-American."
"I've been a refugee twice, once from the Nazis and we were in England, and then we came to the United States when the communists took over in Czechoslovakia. And I think that it is one of the most un-American things I've ever heard," Albright told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night on"Anderson Cooper 360.
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