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  2. The Emigree - Wikipedia

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    The poem explores the memory of the speaker and their experiences in a faraway city they spent time in as a child. The narrator reminisces about the place through their childhood eyes, although we see conflict between this and their adult perception of her homeland. The narrator pictures in their mind the country or city where (s)he was born. [2]

  3. Hyphenated American - Wikipedia

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    In their 2018 biography of Dominican-American poetess Rhina Espaillat, who is known for encouraging both bilingualism and American patriotism among younger people who speak immigrant languages, Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillant criticized how, in American political discourse for decades after Espaillat's 1938 arrival as a political refugee ...

  4. Richard Blanco - Wikipedia

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    Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an American poet, public speaker, author, playwright, and civil engineer.He is the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration, having read the poem "One Today" for Barack Obama's second inauguration.

  5. Perpetual foreigner - Wikipedia

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    Some examples include Langston Hughes' poem and notable work of the Harlem Renaissance "I, Too" which proclaims at the end "I, too, am America". [ 53 ] [ 54 ] The American Dakota writer Zitkála-Šá penned the poem The Red Man's America comments generally on the experiences of Indigenous people in America as outsiders to "liberty and equality ...

  6. Trump reprises anti-immigration poem at rally - AOL

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  7. Migrant literature - Wikipedia

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    Migrant literature focuses on the social contexts in the migrants' country of origin which prompt them to leave, on the experience of migration itself, on the mixed reception which they may receive in the country of arrival, on experiences of racism and hostility, and on the sense of rootlessness and the search for identity which can result from displacement and cultural diversity.

  8. Biden regrets using "illegal" to describe immigrant in speech

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    U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday said he regretted using the term "illegal" in a recent speech to describe an undocumented immigrant who allegedly murdered a student, which drew fire from ...

  9. Republicans lean into Trump's border message during a ... - AOL

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    Immigration has long been one of Trump’s banner issues, as he has criticized the unprecedented number of migrants entering the country illegally through the U.S. border with Mexico.