Count the cost of every lie
Watching migrant children die
Callously we hide their tears;
Lock them up! prey on their fears

#FakeTrumpEmergency
In heileras, where they freeze
Ripped from doting families
No way to reunify!
Was there ever thought to try?

#FakeTrumpEmergency

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/f…
Thousands languish, waste away
Such an awful price to pay
Government so inhumane
Why replace their dreams with pain?

#FakeTrumpEmergency

npr.org/2018/12/13/676…
Think a moment why they’ve come
Torture, gangs, rape where they’re from
Leave or die; they had to choose
Either way they’d only lose

#FakeTrumpEmergency

vox.com/2018/10/24/180…
Miles and miles of road, they toil
Towards chants, here, of blood and soil
Escape horrors in their wake
Desperate: One life to make

#FakeTrumpEmergency
Whilst some launch such hateful screeds
Their journeys mark OUR misdeeds;
Policies made in our name
Caused their strife - but THEM we blame

#FakeTrumpEmergency

usatoday.com/story/news/wor…
Some forget our sordid past;
Refugees refused, outcast
Our forbears were tempest-tost
Taunted, tortured, reviled, lost

#FakeTrumpEmergency

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Grab the torches! Don the hood!
Immigrants just ain’t no good!
Close the doors and keep ‘em out!
Faces reddened as they’d shout

#FakeTrumpEmergency
Yearning only to breathe free,
Lucky ones saw Liberty
We stand, grateful, for their flight
Towards that lady with the light

#FakeTrumpEmergency
Many times we've tried to teach
Hoping somehow that we'd reach
Still we hear those racist rants
Disrespecting immigrants

#FakeTrumpEmergency

nytimes.com/2019/02/15/us/…
One day might we rise above
Shed our anger, learn to love
Some mock these simplistic hopes
Some cheer xenophobic tropes

#FakeTrumpEmergency

time.com/5442909/xenoph…
Maybe, we could help these youths
Hear their stories, find their truths;
Learning from our ancestry
Whither, roots of bigotry

#FakeTrumpEmergency
All it takes is you and me
Work in solidarity
Marching, chanting, speaking out
Changing whispers to a SHOUT

#FakeTrumpEmergency

truthout.org/articles/massi…
Congress can't silence our voice
Presidents won’t stop our choice
Policies won’t hold us down
“Separation” died with “Brown”

#FakeTrumpEmergency

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Fighting for equality
Through the pain, indignity
Know this, even when we fail
Justice ALWAYS will prevail

#FakeTrumpEmergency

vox.com/policy-and-pol…
Votes won't stop it, nor some wall
Shutdowns, lies, won't cease its crawl
Each fiber, each waking breath
Bellow, liberty or death!

#FakeTrumpEmergency

g.co/kgs/4zUd2V
Storm the statehouse, file in court
Change each legal entry port
Such sweet faces we could save
From fate’s undeserving grave

#FakeTrumpEmergency

nytimes.com/2018/07/10/us/…
But some pains will never heal
Mourning youths dead, lost; surreal
Think you’ve seen compassion die?
Count the cost of every lie

#FakeTrumpEmergency

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