Ray Suarez

Oct 9, 2024 | nbcuacademy.com | Ray Suarez

I thought I had an agreement with Siddiq. He had come to the United States with his family just before Afghanistan began to completely unravel in 2020. He was making a life for himself. He was enrolled in community college. He was picking up English more easily than the rest of his family. A trusted go-between had introduced us, telling me privately the family was a little skittish about talking to a reporter. So I took it easy. I was reassuring, patient.

May 6, 2024 | borderlessmag.org | Ray Suarez

InterludeSamir born in Mombasa, KenyaI was already 20, and it was like you had won the Golden Ticket, right? I had family and cousins here, so I kind of knew a bit about it, like it wasn’t “the streets were paved with gold” type of thing. You’ll have to work. My parents were born in Kenya and Tanzania during the colonial time, the British colonial time, so we were, I guess, second or third generation, and we were originally from Yemen. So growing up I was already an immigrant from birth.

May 6, 2024 | borderlessmag.org | Ray Suarez |Política de inmigración

InterludioSamir nacido en Mombasa, KeniaYo ya tenía 20 años, y era como si te hubieras ganado el billete dorado, ¿no? Tenía familia y primos aquí, así que algo sabía, como que no era algo del tipo "las calles estaban pavimentadas con oro". Tendrás que trabajar. Mis padres nacieron en Kenia y Tanzania durante la época colonial, la época colonial británica, así que éramos, supongo, la segunda o tercera generación, y éramos originarios de Yemen. Así que cuando crecí ya era un inmigrante de nacimiento.

Apr 25, 2024 | laprogressive.com | Ray Suarez

Parade of unemployed men, New York, May 31, 1909. Photo via Wikimedia CommonsLots of people are trying to come to terms with narrowed horizons, cramped futures…and they’re pretty pissed.

Apr 23, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Ray Suarez |Ta-Nehisi Coates |Alok Vaid-Menon

A provocative work that urges reconsideration of immigration rights in a nation of immigrants. A broadcaster delivers a charged account of the lives of immigrants. When Donald Trump snarled to the members of Congress’s progressive “Squad” that they should “go back where they came from,” although three of the four were U.S. born, “it was not a violation but a reminder,” implying that although they were as American as Trump, they were somehow different.