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256 pages, Hardcover
Published May 13, 2025
"The adults who have tried to actively hurt me aren’t as bad as all the adults who stand around, seeing what’s happening, doing nothing. Looking bored. This has been everywhere since I got to el Norte."
"...in Charlie 25, in Tornillo, in this country, if you're a migrante kid, there's no stepping forward and no stepping backward. They keep you pinned where you are. We have no control. We are controlled.
And I don’t even think they’re trying to hurt us, exactly. They do it because that’s just how this system is built. They do it because that’s how it’s done here. They’ve created this prison camp where all of us are constantly told: you’re a criminal, you’re a pain in the ass, you don’t matter. They don't say it out loud, but stay locked up here long enough, and you get the message, loud and clear."