This just in: There has been a bombing downtown today. . The blast killed 167 men, women, and children and injured 853 others . Nineteen children, many in a second floor daycare center, died in the Building’s collapse Thirty children were orphaned. A total of 219 children lost a parent The force of the blast damaged 324 surrounding buildings, overturned automobiles, touched off car fires, and blew out windows and doors in a 50-block area. News reports indicated the explosion …showed first 75 words of 1623 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1623 total…and were offered freedom, no matter what religion or nationality. That is the foundation of America, do we presume to have the right to erase that? And further more , do we really want to? The verses of Emma Laserus inscribed on the Statue of Liberty puts it best "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.”