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Tengo Un Sueño

Legalize Us!

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Tengo Un Sueño
Immigration

That all my billions of families of

red, white, and green

Will receive the chance to endure freedom

And soar like bald eagles.

And stop being bounded by fifty pound chains

Of states empowerment.

Choked by its snakes venom.

Arching vertebrate’s in the scorching hell heat

Sun rays stabbing their skin as they pick up

YOUR produce.

40+ hours of robotic movements in dark, dusty factories

So that Walmart and Shoprite experience

Can give YOU satisfaction.

Sweat running through their innocent scalps

Swishing like Niagara Falls

Parent’s tears run down their loving cheeks

Only thoughts are of their children’s needs

What will they eat?

What will they wear?

Will they have an education?

Their future.

That $8.38 an hour can’t buy.

Nor can it rent.

But costs them their lives.

Our lives.

Unfair justice system

Can’t even look at the work they do.

No social status.

As if we are aliens..

The Unimportant.

The Worthless.

And yet we pay taxes.

For the construction of

YOUR roads.

We join the Armed forces

For YOUR country.

We are your lawn mowers.

Your carpenters.

Your maids.

Your housekeepers.

Your cooks.

Your janitors

Construction workers.

Home health aids.

Waiters

Agriculture workers

Shall I go on?

But we don’t care.


While, we do make you look GOOD,

We are not doing it for you.

We do it for our children.

For our babies to have a greater future that

WE NEVER had.

If it means walking on hot rocks for 8 hours or more,

We will do it.

Is it so wrong for you to turn our way?

To give us importance

In this so called “Land of the free”

A billion puzzle country

Each piece is one of us.

Connected with you to

Create a distinct

beautiful

Artsy picture.

AMERICA

Legalize us.

Make us important.

Don’t toss us to the waste.
Help us see.

Help us..

Please…

Don’t do it for you.

Do it for the future…

Our FUTURE.

#Letusbepartofthatfuture.

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