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Arizona must develop an immigration policy with our long-held empathetic values

OPINION — Emma Lazarus is most known for words associated with Lady Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free…”

It’s nothing new to most readers, but worth recalling for the pride and compassion conveyed by those words. 

Arizona has been experiencing an influx of immigrants. The large number of undocumented immigrants and the “huddled masses” are housed in detention facilities in Mesa and Phoenix. 

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