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Ronald Reagan waves beside his wife Nancy Reagan during his 1981 inaugural ceremony in Washington, D.C. He is the star of a new orchestral and video work highlighting episodes from his life.
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Chloe Veltman
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Mourners, including María Guadalupe Rodríguez (kneeling), pray and pay their respects in front of a makeshift memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant shot and killed by immigration agents in Houston.
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Houston neighbors started seeing more ICE agents around. Then came a fatal shooting.
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Immigrants arrested in Houston tell different story about fatal shooting by ICE agents
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