Early in his deployment, in the summer of 2003, Maj. Dave Kleiber would sit with his fellow soldiers at night, smoking cigars from Saddam Hussein’s humidor on the roof of the Radwaniyah Palace and watching tracer fire over Baghdad. The former digs of the deposed Iraqi dictator served as the …
Read More »ICE in the Age of COVID-19
A year ago, around the time an ICE agent showed up at his mother’s home in Queens looking for him, Edwin had a union job working with sheet metal, and a wife and two kids. “My brother calls me, and he’s crying,” Edwin, who has a thick New York accent, …
Read More »Selena Gomez Sits Down with the Three Young People Facing Deportation in 'Living Undocumented'
Selena Gomez hosted an emotional roundtable discussion with three of the young adults featured in Netflix‘s docuseriesLiving Undocumented. The series, which Gomez produced, premieres Friday on the streaming site and follows eight families as they face potential deportation. Gomez sat down with 18-year-old Bar, whose family fled Tel Aviv, and …
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