A whole life of waiting

2026-02-15


I don’t know what to do with this anger and sadness, feelings provoked by the reality that there are kids spending weeks and months in terrible conditions in detention centres in the US.

So I will do what I can do, which is once again read the letters written by kids held in an ICE detention center in Dilley, Texas. And I ask you to read them too.

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Letter from Gaby M.M, who is a 14-year-old from Colombia who was living in Houston, Texas and had been detained for 20 days. Via ProPublica.

Attribution

Ad domestica
A veil of home; a state

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A whole life of waiting
& before that:

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— from Fragments on Naturalization by Snigdha Koirala 

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