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Jilmar Ramos-Gomez
By Bunkong Tuon. Why did ICE nearly deport a US-born Marine?
Lost in Transcription
By Joanie Mackowski. “Words are little cages.”
This Poem, If Accepted, May Cost Me $250 Million Dollars
By Theric Jepson. The teen in the Lincoln Memorial protest sues the Post for what Jeff Bezos paid for it.
The Detained Calendar
By Mary Turck. ICE is imprisoning a record 44,631 people.
Joking
By D.A. Gray. “The word creeps through the vents to the point we wonder if we heard what we heard.”
The Shutdown Is Over—For Now
By Marianne Gambaro. A poem for the smallest victims of the government shutdown.
There Was A Man
By Richard Garcia. About a man, a ladder and a wall.
You
By Jeff Hardin. “You are not you, not the you you assume.”
What They Don’t Say About Border Violence
By Abigail Carl-Klassen. “They cry ‘border violence,’ even though they brought the violence to us.”
I Know More About Drones Than Anybody
By Yvonne Daley. The president proves that if you add to the truth, you subtract from it.