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Futuro. the show. Seven years ago, D. Esperanza was a 14-year-old boy from Honduras. He was being held at the

Tornillo facility in Texas, which was one of the immigrant detention camps

where the first Trump administration

began to hold children and teens.

Dee believed that when he entered the United States,

making the trip up from Honduras,

that everything in this country would be different,

but it wasn't.

So while this little boy was detained at Tornello, writing helped him make sense of all of these fears,

and it helped him to hold on to hope.

He filled the pages of a black and white composition notebook with poems, drawings, and diary

entries.

One of those entries starts with Still in La Perreira, still in the dog cage.

He continues, with this angry man yelling questions that I don't even understand,

it felt like I was in a dream or in a nightmare. After five long months in detention, D. was

released, but he left his notebook behind as a kind of gift of hope for the other boys that he

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