Michael Smith - I woke up this morning thinking about a couple of...

The first one was this quote often attributed to Abraham Lincoln: “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” - Michael Smith

• The second is the clear evidence the enemy has made it inside the perimeter wire – and I’m not talking about the illegal alien gangs in Colorado and everywhere else, I’m also thinking about the legal immigrants who are clearly anti-American, several who represent communities of legal and illegal anti-American immigrants.

To justify their criticism of people opposing an open border, some people use these lines from this sonnet by Emma Lazarus. 

You will recognize the words from a plaque bolted to the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. The poem is called “The New Colossus”:

“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-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

However, when you consider the sonnet in its entirety, the line immediately preceding this well-known section changes its meaning entirely:

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she with silent lips.”

• We aren’t welcoming the random huddled masses and giving them the opportunity to come to America only to isolate and reestablish their countries and culture here. 
• We are saying that if you want to be free, accept what America is and leave your past allegiances behind...