A short history of schools and immigration

America, did you have a soul to lose?

                        Did you have hope for your children?

Did you ever welcome anyone?

                        Did you put them in schools to ready them for jobs?

Did you belong here, from the beginning?

                        Did you round up the children to free up jobs?

This would not be the first time, America.

                        When are you going away?

America, I’m tired of you.

                        You brought them guns.

You kept them out.

                        You put them in pipelines:

                                    school to prison

                                    JROTC to army

                                    residential school to reservation

You forced them here:

                                slave ships

                                bombing their home countries

                                hunger             and           deprivation

Shithole country,

                        your own children are gunning you down.

You gave them no way out.

                        You teach them to shoot.

You entice them with jobs.

                        You train them for jobs.

You make them need jobs

                        that don’t exist.

Let’s get back “[t]o the real work, to

                         ‘what is to be done.’”

 

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