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This is again another
work in progress.

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I'm being very just open
with you all with this.

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So these are questions taken
from some of the asylum

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questions that juveniles
receive when they come

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and when they are
taken to be processed.

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And so I've taken some of those
questions and pressed on them

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just a little bit.

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Why did you come here to this
white egg, this dirt shot

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through with mica?

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It's different light
that enters you

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like a rattlesnake's breath.

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Why cross into this
noise that holds

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you like your
mother's voice when

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she calls you in from the
evening to eat, to rest?

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When did you enter their hands?

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When the green
truck door opened?

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Or when it opened
you, architectured you

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into a mansion of night and
made your mouth and nose speak,

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nodded red ribbons?

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With whom did you
travel to this page?

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Who did you carry on
your back 1,000 miles?

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Who would you carry on
your back, away from death?

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Who was cramped there behind
the dashboard of the car

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riding low and slow
along the service road,

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behind your right ear?

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What eye did you travel through?

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El Ojo del Agua Aguardiente?

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What iliac crest or which
window did you climb into?

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Did you lean a chair beneath it?

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Did someone hold
you by the hips,

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lift you, and push you
over to the other side?

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Are you happy there in
the width of the line,

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in the sentence you've been
given, written down in?

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When the giant tire drags like
a black cloud across the sands,

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are you afraid or erased
by the smoothness?

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Who can you trust to read the
line of caracal footprints,

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a retelling of you?

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Isn't it crazy that they believe
they can translate your life?

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Do you feel safe with
the coyotes in the dunes,

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with a white page rising large
and hot at night turning over

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like a searchlight, and the
moon like a curve of fat

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left on the silvery bone,
blue with cold and congealing

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and loneliness?

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Do you feel safe with the
red sand sleeping outside

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and how it turns
to peach glitter,

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to rust in the corners
of the child's mouths

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and eyes and elbows?

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Do you feel the
children are safe?

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How did you travel here?

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In a rocket ship?

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In the future?

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Across a native
woman's backs and hips?

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Where did you cross the
border of the monster?

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In its teeth?

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In the holster of its hip?

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Or near its ankle
bone and boot buckle?

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And you, my audience,
how do you like where

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you're living now in America?

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Are you happy there?

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Do you feel American tonight?

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Do you feel safe?

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One of the craziest things
about those questions,

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especially about the
credible fear questionnaire,

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is that you have
to prove your fear.

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You have to demonstrate
that your fear is credible.

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And there probably
isn't a single woman

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or female-identifying
person in this room

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who, if they were asked,
"Have you ever felt fear

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for your life in this
country?", there's

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probably not a single
person who would answer, No.

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And imagine if you had to
prove that to somebody.

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Not to a doctor, not
to a psychiatrist,

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but to a border patrol agent.

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At ASU's campus today,
the border patrol

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were there as part
of a career day.

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And I hear that's what
happened here also.

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Maybe we were like a week
behind you all or something.

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I mean, that's an
absurdity in itself.

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But they were there
as part of career day,

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and they were also working--

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meaning they had every
right to do the job

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they have been hired
and paid to do.

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We didn't know about it right
and I found out about it

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as we were driving down.

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It's kind of crazy.

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