He's always resisted the temptation to write a sequel to "The Commitments," despite many requests — yet he slides by the issue with "The Deportees," about a new band formed by an older, married, Jimmy Rabbitte.
A group of 277 deportees about a quarter of the illegal Brazilian immigrants held in detention in the United States -- arrived home Wednesday on a plane chartered by the United States government.
Of those deportees, about 4% came from within about 375 million kilometers of the sun, rendering them rock- or metal-rich bodies like asteroids rather than icy orbs like comets, the researchers report online ahead of print in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Micaela led me to a public square where several hundred homeless deportees were milling about, waiting for the free meal that local humanitarian organizations dish out every day.
Immigration authorities announced last month that they had deported a record number of immigrants over the previous 12 months; more than 195,700 of the deportees, or about half of the total, were convicted criminals.
There may be no sadder or more current song about the xenophobic demeaning of immigrants than Guthrie's "Deportee," a tragic ballad about Mexican farmworkers.
Many deportees are gang members who committed crimes in the U.S. Laura Ling speaks with a recent deportee in Tijuana, Mexico about the fate of deported gang members in Mexico, many of who end up as foot soldiers in Mexico's drug war.
For decades, Baez has sung "Deportee," the song Woody Guthrie wrote about it.
After Trump's election, she began interviewing recent deportees in Reynosa about their experiences with U.S. immigration authorities, and gathered accounts of asylum seekers who'd been kidnapped or otherwise harmed after being turned away.
Speaking about his 57-day detention Mohammed, a deportee from Somalia, told researchers there was so little food in one center that inmates fought each other for it.
