Regardless of what your political leanings are or who you choose to support politically, Trumps statement on immigrants coming from "Shithole Countries" is undeniably contrary to some of our oldest and most sacred values as Americans.

I'm not trying to criticize anyone who voted for Trump or to start any arguments here. I'm fully convinced that the people who voted for Trump did so mainly out of the frustration from years of lies, neglect, and abuses of power. But let's not hold so dearly to our current political loyalties and our need to defend the decisions we've made so much that we abandon our time tested and most revered values.

Let's never forget the words of the poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus which was engraved on the very pedestal of the Statue of Liberty back in 1903:

"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
MOTHER OF EXILES. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "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!"