Fox host: “Lady Liberty never promised welfare, if you look at the history of it”
Rob Schmitt: “If you look back at the history of this country, most of the welfare in this country was created long after the Statue of Liberty was erected”
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Citation From the August 14, 2019 edition of Fox & Friends First
ROB SCHMITT (CO-HOST): The president's critics outraged over the changes to immigration laws that could deny green cards to migrants who need welfare in this country. But Lady Liberty never promised welfare, if you look at the history of it.
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SCHMITT: If you look at some of the numbers here, it says about $2 billion have been saved under this new immigration rule. And we also understand that this rule has been around for a while. This is not a new thing that the president is trying to implement here, that the United States has been this way. And let me also bring one more thing up, a reporter asked one of the administration officials about what is written under the Statue of Liberty, and basically alleging that they are trying to change that, that we don't want to bring in your tired, your hungry, your poor. But if you look back at the history of this country, most of the welfare in this country was created long after the Statue of Liberty was erected. People used to come here and you didn't get a free ride if you couldn't make it, you came here and it was a chance. And if you didn't make it, you just didn't make it.