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Your suggestion that the poem excludes any ethnic group is, to my mind, a stretch.
Because of her Russian Jewish background, the poem's author Emma Lazurus, was an outspoken proponent of American citizenship for Russian Jews desperate to escape the Russian pogroms.
Would she have been content to deny citizenship to any ethnic group? I think not!
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