Thread by @TitusNation

Sent to me today.

Imagine, if you will....
You're an 8 year old child living in deep poverty.
Your Mom has been raped for the 5th time.
While your Dad has recently escaped from the Cartels army recruitment forces.
In your families shack on the outskirts of town, you wake up ...

to the sound of your parents holding each other and crying.
Soon your parents are packing up your 3 shirts and 2 pairs of shorts in a sack with a rope on it.
Along with some water and food.
For the long and dangerous journey north to the land of the free.

To the shining city upon the hill, where the lady stands in a harbor welcoming everyone to this land made of immigrants.
Where all people are welcome and treated like people instead of cattle, or worse.
To keep hope alive on the trip, your Dad talks about your cousin in America.

Whose joining the American Marines, to pay the country back for taking them in and protecting them from the cartels.
What seems like months of traveling north, your parents basically dragging you across the sand and heat.
While giving you their last bit of water and food.

Yet the whole time, your parents were smiling with pride for the choice they had made to take this chance.
Rather then stay and die at the hands of the cartels army.
They chose to take the chance to find us a better life.
After all the miles, the desert and the incredible heat.

You and your parents make it to the American border
Then with violent hands of people whom hate their jobs.
You and your parents are separated and taken to different internment camps.
Literal tent camps fenced and barb wired in to contain migrant children.

Your forced to eat uncooked frozen food.
While sleeping on concrete floors inside cages.
Some kids get drug away by the same guards and when they bring them back the kids are crying and lay curled up in the corners holding their bellies and bottoms.

Other kids are really sick and have no one to take care of them so a few older kids try to take care of them.
Made to wear the same clothes for weeks at a time.
While not being able to take a bath or a shower and when you do get a shower its ice cold water with no soap.

Kids ask where their parents are.
Some guards laugh at the kids and tell them their parents sold them to America and went back home.
All the kids cry themselves to sleep every night.
This is Trumps America.

Written by my Buddy D in Colorado