A colossal mistake?

"Lady Liberty" has a new look. She used to hold a torch in her right hand and a tablet inscribed with the date July 4, 1776 (the date the United States declared its independence) in her left hand. In light of the new US-VISIT program, this cartoonist outfitted her with some new accessories and a new message on her base. The actual inscription on the Statue of Liberty is the poem "The New Colossus," by Emma Lazarus, which reads, in part: "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!" What does that poem mean? What is the cartoonist's opinion of the new US-VISIT policy? Do you agree? Why or why not?