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Go back to your country
as a child i had The usual fears
the dark and the monsters under my bed
most of us would’ve grown out them
but not me
i’m still scared of the dark and the monsters
but instead it’s the darkness of a system instead of my room
and the monsters are ice officers
As a child of an immigrant and a first generation US citizen i’ve seen the struggle of trying to get papers
of trying to figure out a world that’s against them
and i myself have had faced my own struggles
tho not as serious equally as important
Being scared that my abuelos will get deported over one mistake
opening the door to wrong people,
talking to the wrong person, for picking up their medications, or even going to the doctor
i was about 5 or 6
That was the first time i started to see the process
I remember this day mostly because of the people i met
rather than the experience
An older man from Mexico here to give his granddaughter a good childhood,
a man from Peru that was trying to bring his pregnant wife over
and a child my age that could barely speak english from Columbia
all so different yet so similar
all with the same fear
The fear that one little thing can take you away from your family
your friends
the life that you made
the life you worked hard to make
all the work and money just thrown away
the blood sweat and tears just gone
out the window because of you got the wrong lawyer
or a wrongly filled paper
even one little misspelling
I know of that negatives that could arise
but the entire point of writing is that is
instead of watching who we abort
we should be more careful who we deport
land of the free is what i was always thought to believe
but being forced to leave over nothing doesn’t seem very free to me
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