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PIERRE DAMAS BEL
On Monday morning, 20-year-old Pierre Damas Bel called his father on video. “I’m not feeling okay mentally because of the bullying,” Pierre told him. His father told him to come home so they could talk.
Pierre never made it home.
Less tha...
FIVE MONTHS IN MEXICO
On April 7, 2026, 25-year-old Brian José Morales García was riding to work with his construction crew near Fredericksburg, Texas, when police stopped the vehicle and called immigration authorities.
Brian José Morales García
Brian told the...
ON OUR WAY TO APPLETON
This afternoon, Chance Meeting and I will be driving three hours west to Appleton, Minnesota.
Population: roughly 1,400 human beings, give or take whoever’s left after the last grain elevator closed or the last kid drove to the Twin Cities...
QUESTIONS FOR KURT ALME
Dear Kurt,
You’re running for the United States Senate in Montana and asking voters to give you one of 100 seats in the most powerful legislative body in the country. That makes your record relevant, including the seven years you spent as...
FREE ARMELLE BRADSHAW
Armelle Bradshaw did what America keeps telling immigrants to do.
She showed up.
On August 12, Armelle and her husband, Terrance Bradshaw, walked into a federal immigration office for a scheduled interview connected to her marriage-based...
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