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A boy and a girl--both responsible people living in the "real" world--experience love at first sight on a New York City street, and discover a new-found belief in fate, dreams, and the hidden poetry of the soul.

A collection of articles that provides varying perspectives on issues related to the deportation of immigrants from the United States.

"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been taken away--and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of her past"--Provided by publisher.

"Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love"--.

Regina Bakala escaped a Congo ruled by chaos and violence and settled in the United States. She worked with an immigration lawyer and then reunited with her husband who was also a Congolese torture survivor. They had two children and Regina was happy and full of hope. Then one night there was a knock on the door and immigration agents took Regina to prison so she could await her eventual deportation back to the Congo and certain death.