Does America Still Want "Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free"?

In this episode I discuss my thoughts about how the U.S. is currently dealing with immigration and immigrants. As an immigrant to Israel I lean on my experience to compare Israel to the U.S. I also reserve some particularly sharp critique for Trump’s current Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller. Emma Lazarus’s sonnet “The New Colossus” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/the-new-colossusDenver Mayor Mike Johnston on his city’s handling of immigrantswww.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz6U5vwCcak&t=299sRonald Reagan’s farewell addresshttps://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/farewell-address-nationStephen Miller’s early lifehttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/us/politics/stephen-miller-trump-white-house.htmlOp-ed by David Glosser, Miller’s unclehttps://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/Kristi Noem’s photo ophttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKYW5gKeOWcArticle on immigrants and crimehttps://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/default/files/research/debunking_the_myth_of_immigrants_and_crime.pdfArticle - “The Afrikaner Exception” by Meir Brookshttps://meirbrooks.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/racism-of-the-unadulterated-kind Get full access to Michael Scott - Thinking Out Loud at mslipkin.substack.com/subscribe