Locked in a Cage

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For a moment, imagine you are a child. A child whose family has been forced to flee their homeland in search for a better life. Now say they are able to get to America, the so-called “land of the free”, a country promising opportunity, safety, democracy. But once you step foot onto this allegedly free soil you are tossed in a cage, in the most deplorable conditions known to man, and you plead and plead to get out, appeal to the rulers of the free land to let…