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Two Georgian nationals, who tore up their identity papers while on route to Ireland to conceal who they were, have received convictions.

Voters in the Bahamas head to the polls on Tuesday in a hotly contested general election featuring high-profile candidates such as the former basketball champion Rick Fox. Voters in the Caribbean archipelago are divided over concerns about immigration, especially from neighbouring Haiti, and the rising cost of living, with significant spikes in gas prices caused by war in the Middle East.

Preliminary results showed its candidate, David Farley, was on track to win 59.1%, defeating the incumbent center-right Liberal Party by a wide margin. It marks the first time One Nation has won a lower house seat in the federal parliament. Farley, a former agribusiness executive, was the clear favorite heading into the contest for Farrer, a large agricultural electorate some 550 kilometers (340 miles) south of Sydney.

When Max and Elena Emma, the cofounders of BooXkeeping, a bookkeeping franchise, decided to get divorced in 2014, the story could easily have gone the way so many others do: lawyers, custody battles, staff forced to pick sides, a once-promising business gutted by a personal split. But Max, BooXkeeping's CEO, and Elena, the company's CPO, had already decided that, for all the emotion between them, this wasn't going to be that story.

He told a delegation of U.S. clergy last fall that "the Church cannot be silent" in a time of mass deportations, and said in March, a month after the United States began attacking Iran, that God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war." His opposition to the conflict has provoked President Trump's ire and earned him rebukes from prominent right-leaning Christians.

Sung Tieu's work summons a form of bureaucratic realism, using sculpture, text, and found objects to examine the exclusions imposed by systems of statehood and administrative control.

"It was incredible," 18-year-old Antonio told NPR after the first show. "I loved it. I felt all the emotions at the same time."

The crackdown has receded, and arrests of immigrants have dropped 12%. However, the surge left a mark that enforcement statistics can't capture, including a hollowed-out local economy.

Mexican culture is increasingly visible on the streets of Dublin, with taquerias popping up across the city and a celebration of the country's music and colours rising in popularity.

I've been canceled for many reasons. I never thought I would be canceled for being a brown Republican voter.

The Board of Immigration Appeals issued a decision that could affect some 11,270 immigrants who are recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, making it easier to deport them.

My children are descended from Canadians on their father's side, and I didn't waste any time getting their citizenship applications submitted. I want my children to have more options to follow their dreams.

Denny Adan Gonzalez was found unresponsive in his living area at the Stewart detention center, prompting CoreCivic staff to call a medical emergency at 10:26 PM on Tuesday night.

Easy does not mean automatic. It means the route is real, current, named in the law, and workable for an American with the right kind of income.