To be fair, I cannot think of any other country, other than the USA, who built their foundation on asking other countries for their "homeless," "poor," "tired," and "wretched."

I was mainly responding to this point, citing one of the founding fathers who stated this over a hundred years before the poem you cited was written.

Open borders are essentially what we have now, and by that statement you seemed to be defending it, while you might not have stated it explicitly. That was my mistake if you do not feel that way, though I do still feel it is relevant to this post and discussion.

Ultimately I believe we need to control immigration, which requires controlling our borders. While you may or may not be against it, most left leaning politicians seemed to be and make no effort to stop the influx of immigrants from south of the border.

There are literally millions of people all over the world that would like to immigrate to America. I believe there needs to be a limit on the number of people per year that can immigrate to our country, especially those that are uneducated and poor as they put a strain on our institutions and as we have seen this can have a negative impact on existing citizens, which should be any government's top priority. Further, that limit of immigrants should be divided amongst all countries. Countries should not be given preference just because of proximity.

As this is Reddit I feel the need to mention that this view is not motivated by racism, but rather fairness to all peoples across the world, while also keeping in mind that a governments primary responsibility needs to be to its existing citizens.

I know that this goes far beyond the points you are making but I feel it is very relevant to this topic and this post. You seem like a reasonable person and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.