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rhia_5779
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0 posted 2006-06-20 08:36 PM


I have  very strong feelings on this as the ones who raised me when my parents weren't around were latina or immigrants.
Why? Is it that we still call this the golden land?
Even as people are killed blood drips on our sand
Blood of innocents, people wishing for another chance
A chance our country offers them, we kill them without a second glance

Fit to work amongst us, do our labor, but also fit to die
That is how we act, that is how we seem, why?
Can we still call ourselves, good children of god?
Citizens doing our duty, I spit in disgust, hardly law

How can we go about our day, not knowing, not caring?
Unable to see how badly we handle this, not hearing
Pleas by little kids, parents asking for this one thing
That they come to our country, while they are barely living

My voice is cold, white-hot fury, a disgrace
All the great ones in our history, their memory would we erase
What they themselves founded, values, ideals hopes, dreams
Us on, Children hurting everyday on the streets, yet too scared to scream

That our people will come and deny them this new life.
Scared, hurt, cheated, offered outrageous claims, strife
Is that really the way we want to be?  How can we do this? Why
What even gives you the idea that this is ok, we are the ones living a lie

Pretending to us that it is all ok, it is such an act that, everything is fine
What is this? How can we say we help, what liars, long ago have we crossed the line
Does our country even care, whose lives each day we touch?  I want to spit
On those so full of themselves that they think it hardly matters, them I want to hit

I swear if I ever, get a chance to repay them for the lives they are trying to ruin,
people who ask for a chance to make it right, for them a fight would occur, I would  win.
If the people who don’t care ever meet me, I will not make it pleasant, oh they will pay.
With everything I can get a hold of; I will “help” them understand, change their ways.
     WHY? CAN WE LET THIS GO ON

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bekahlekah45
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since 2006-03-14
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1 posted 2006-06-21 12:00 PM


wow.  i did like this.  good points were made and it was made into a good poem
well done

stargal
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since 2006-03-06
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2 posted 2006-06-21 01:13 AM


Okay, well… I’m not really sure which innocent lives you think we are killing? Could you maybe explain a little bit more before I offer an opinion?

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rhia_5779
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3 posted 2006-06-21 01:22 AM


the military was given orders to shoot any imigrants who cross our borders.  and any people sent back into central america are basically being sent to die.
rhia_5779
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4 posted 2006-06-21 01:23 AM


it is so bad in mexico, the level of poverty and desease
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