Thread by @KimMukerjee

Brilliantly devastating. Poignant. Heartbreaking. I am sobbing. @nytimes this is the most powerful #OpEd I have ever seen. I hear these words from the mouths of immigrant children in my clinic weekly and it’s so hard to describe what that feels like. This is what it sounds like.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1151918322805596162

I have heard nearly every phrase read in this piece. From children. Adolescents. Mothers. Fathers. Today. Yesterday. The day before that. Most days I lack the words to describe what I see and hear. The outrage. The sadness. The disbelief. The enormous systemic wrongdoing.

With the sobbing mother who tells me “mi hija ya no es la misma niña.” My daughter isn’t the same child she was. It was cold. There was no hot food. They treated us like animals. “Mami te extrañaba mucho.” Mommy, I missed you so much. Just one of many stories. This week in clinic

This amazing video #OpEd from @nytimes captures the rage and sadness and disbelief and wrongdoing all at once. And it doesn’t take looking for extra words to describe how it makes me feel. The very words of these very children say it all. And speak loud and clear.

It is for these children we raise our voices. It is for these children we stay outraged. It is for this systemic-level inflicted harm and wrongdoing that we speak out and fight until no child is in detention and every family is treated with dignity.

We contact our members of Congress, we elevate the voices of those working to protect these children such as the @HispanicCaucus. We raise our voices until every member of Congress puts human dignity before party and racism and xenophobia.

And in our communities, though far from the border they may be, we take care of these kids as our own. Healthcare, legal assistance, education, food, housing, and everything else that defines the well-being of a child. Of a family. Of community. We restore humanity.