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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AX) — From the frigid confines of an Anchorage jail, Roble Ahmed Salad, a 27-year-old Somali asylum seeker, epitomizes the intricate and often perplexing nature of immigration enforcement in the United States, particularly Alaska. The U.S. government has already invested thousands of taxpayer dollars in an attempt to deport this man, despite the clear and present dangers associated with returning anyone to Somalia. To paint a fuller picture, Salad has no criminal record, neither in America nor in…

Listening for the first time to an album by Wasis Diop, poems of speech and sound, is to experience. As with Leonard Cohen, Kate Bush or Joni Mitchell, the feeling of entering a temple. A feeling so rare that each new record represents an event. He has done six in almost thirty years: Hyenor 1992, No Sant ("Your name?") 1994, Toxu ("Moving") 1997, Juddu Bek ("Joy of living") 2007 and Séquences 2014 The latter, a compilation of his many film music, presents his international hit, Everything is Never Quite Enough,…