Brooke Yanaga’s Reviews > The Undocumented Americans > Status Update

"And then these kids fucking find me, and what do I do, but invite them into my heart and tell them, babes, go to school, climb the ranks, kill the salutatorian, make it look like an accident, and in your valedictory address, remind your school that cops are pigs, and ICE are Nazis...escape to my home for some chamomile tea and RuPaul, there will always be room for you, I love you and forever will."

“The government wanted the people of Flint dead, or did not care if they died, which is the same thing, and set in motion a plan for them to be killed slowly through negligence at the highest levels. What I saw in Flint was a microcosm of the way the government treats the undocumented everywhere, making the conditions in this country as deadly and toxic and inhumane as possible so that we will self-deport.”

“On the wall, migrants are celebrated through art that strikes me as deeply annoying, mostly the word ‘migrant’ reconfigured as butterflies. I fucking hate thinking of migrants as butterflies. Butterflies can’t fuck a bitch up.”