WITHOUT a lit torch and out of Ellis Island, Ken Cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (Uscis), announced on Aug. 13, 2019 that all immigrants must “stand on their own two feet” and be “self-sufficient, and pull themselves up by their bootstraps.”

Otherwise, immigrants would not be welcome.

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