The South Side of the Border
On the south side of Border Town,
13,200 brown children were detained.
Wrenched from the arms of their mothers by the agents of ICE.
Infants are held tightly, cared for by other children
in dirty, neglectful, and dangerous conditions
that scar the southern border of the American Dream.
The Flores settlement mandates that children must be held in safe and sanitary conditions,
That is the law.
Except children are taking care of children on the south side of
Border Town.
The conditions the human lawyers found, they found to be inhuman
Flu and lice outbreaks left untreated,
children filthy,
sleeping on cold floors,
guarding each other form the guards.
Most have been here for weeks.
Constantly switching blankets between cover and floor.
Everyone is crying, crying all the time.
Because there’s only children taking care of children on the south side of
Border Town.
Across El Ria Grande; across that lazy river. . .
A scared little girl standing on the safe American shore;
jumps back into El Rio to reach her papa and cling to him as he swims.
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