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This one's going
to be tough for me.

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OK, so I did get to work briefly
with an immigration lawyer,

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and unfortunately
that was just looking

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at a lot of cases and documents.

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That's sort of what's really
frustrating about this crisis

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is that it's just
a lot of documents,

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it's a lot of
bureaucracy, and there's

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just-- there are no faces.

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But I was interested in
representing at least what

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the documents look like.

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This is not a document I
handled as part of the practice.

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Those are confidential.

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This was released when they
couldn't locate the parents,

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and this is what it looks like.

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Just a wall of
data, dehumanized.

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"Parole, denial, reason."

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In America, the land is
the ghost of the land.

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In America, the land is
the land of the ghost.

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In America, the land of
the ghost in the land.

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In America, the
land is the ghost.

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In America, the
ghost is the land.

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In America, the land of
the, is the ghost land,

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the land is the land of
the ghost, is the land,

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is the ghost, is the--

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The border becomes a site of
spatial-temporal inequality,

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where first world nations
extract time and lifespans

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from the nations south
of the US-Mexico border.

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The line itself manufactures
temporal-social-spatial

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inequality and
corrupts the archive,

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creating slippages of time that
manifest as those who remember

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from those who don't.

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Those who belong to the past and
those who belong to the future,

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dividing languages,
histories, families, futures.

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Western temporal-spatial
domination

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thrives on forgetting
and displacement.

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Migration is an act
inextricably bound to childhood.

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The wolf womb, the open
portal, the time wound,

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the dark pines shining
back eyes, the shine back,

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the crying woman,
the slap from a man,

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the slap back, the hole in the
wall, the fist in the girl,

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the half moon split
between nations,

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the obliterated nation,
the cord in the bedroom,

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the milky flame, the leaf
of cloth around the child,

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the found secret, the way down.

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The migrant child
is the figure that

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motivates the abject cruelty
of white supremacist violence.

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Children represent the
future, and migrant children

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are the embodiment of what
drives white racial anxiety.

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A future in which whites
are outnumbered and replaced

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by non-white migrants
and their children.

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The child in the image is
no longer a human being,

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but a debate, a symbol
flattened by rhetoric.

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Her grief and terror on loop,
dimming before our very eyes.

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