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| Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Ferguson, Missouri. December 2017. |
December 2017
Beauty, sadness, membership, anger, quiet, fear, song, powerlessness, power.
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| Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Ferguson, Missouri. December 2017. |
All of these wavelets lapped around me at the Spanish Mass I attended at Ferguson's Our Lady of Guadalupe Church.
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| Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Ferguson, Missouri. December 2017. |
Forefront in my mind was the St. Louis Public Radio story I'd read the day before about a parishioner, Jose Garcia. In November, the United States of America deported him to Mexico, yanking him from the arms of his wife, Ana, and his three little girls - Amanda, Julissa, and Dana.
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| Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Ferguson, Missouri. December 2017. |
Who benefited from this action?
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| Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Ferguson, Missouri. December 2017. |
No one, other than a pyramid scheme of ICE operatives to whom a man is a commodity for meeting quotas and adding ticks to a quarterly report.
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| Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Ferguson, Missouri. December 2017. |
A tiny little stat thrown into a virtual mass grave of thousands of other data blips, all denuded of their names, ties to families and communities - their very humanity.
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| Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Ferguson, Missouri. December 2017. |
Marks on a report that will be covered by a fresh sediment layer when government operatives dump new nameless, faceless expendables into the ditch.
'tis the season.
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