Reply #60: good luck

[eyeofdelphi]

i feel for you and really hope one day in the very near future you will get citizenship.
we all need to remember that unless your 100% native american, you are only in this country because one of your ancestors immigrated here, maybe legally, maybe not. i personally cannot trace how my family got here or if it was legal, and neither can most americans.

this is the quote that is on the plaque of the Statue of Liberty (and i think it's beautiful):

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"