That’s what the U.S.’s immigration chief told NPR, twisting the words on the Statue of Liberty, to defend a new rule that would penalize immigrants who rely on government benefits.
“No one has a right to become an American who isn’t born here as an American,” Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of USCIS, told NPR.
Then he clarified. “It is a privilege to become an American not a right for anybody who is not already an American citizen.”
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