Jessie Reyez depicts the harrowing experience of losing one’s love to deportation in her potent new song “Far Away.” The track will appear on her forthcoming debut studio album via FMLY/Island, which is due out next year. In the Peter Huang-directed clip, the Colombian-Canadian singer dances alone while her partner …
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At a rally in May, President Trump laughed when a supporter suggested shooting migrants to prevent them from crossing the Southern border. “That’s only in the Panhandle can you get away with that statement,” the president said to a cheering audience in Panama City Beach, Florida. On Tuesday, we also …
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For President Trump and many of his political allies, the concept of “legal immigration” often boils down to one common refrain: “Get in line.” But as John Oliver detailed on Last Week Tonight, doing so is easier said than done — if not outright impossible. “Legal immigration is good,” the …
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This story was originally published by ProPublica. An unofficial commemorative coin has been circulating among Border Patrol agents at the U.S./Mexico border, mocking the task of caring for migrant children and other duties that have fallen to agents as families cross into the U.S. On the front, the coin declares …
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A lma woke before 6 a.m. She dressed quickly, roused her four children and packed a lunch. It was a chilly spring morning, a Thursday. Light bloomed across the low green hills of east Tennessee as she drove past tomato fields and cow pastures and old cemetery plots until she …
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