Behind the legal language lie crowded apartments,
small businesses, U.S.-born children,
and years of precarious hope. Kristi Noem’s
DHS memo framed continued protection as contrary to the “national interest,”
while deportation numbers surged past half a million removals.
Supporters see restored control and deterrence;
critics see families being dismantled by a pen stroke.
As buses and planes prepare to move people who once believed they were safe,
the ruling forces the country to confront
what its promises to migrants truly mea.
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