Designed to Punish : Immigrant Detention and Deportation in the US
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doi:10.4324/9780203549704-8

ABSTRACT

In a poem called “Botpipèl” (Boat People), Félix Morisseau-Leroy (1912– 1998) of Haiti wrote: Nou tap kouri pou Fò Dimanch Nou vin echwe nan Kwòm Avni which means We were running from Ft. Dimanche We washed ashore on Krome Avenue. ²