Jose Bello: Dear America

Jose Bello, 21, was picked up by ICE agents in 2018 in what became an ordeal that continues today. He stands in from of Mesa Verde Detention Facility on Golden State Avenue in Bakersfield where he was detained as his immigration case started through the system.

“I live my life in frustration / Private Prisons, political funding, mass incarceration.” Read one young person’s take on immigration detention in poetry from South Kern Sol.