Amor & Exile

The Fall of our Neighbors – and the Rise of Collective Sight

Amor and Exile — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Brutality continues to rain down on U.S communities, at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), and millions of people, for the first time, are grappling with the prospect of becoming targets of state sponsored violence for simply walking down the street. People cry, “this isn’t us!” or, …

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What’s behind Biden’s action on undocumented spouses? A million love stories.

Amor and Exile — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 22:39:31 +0000

By Nicole Salgado and Nathaniel Hoffman Love is one of the main drivers of migration, and it always has been. As a new Biden administration executive action providing legal relief to hundreds of thousands of undocumented spouses of American citizens rolls out, it is essential that we recognize the million beautiful love stories behind the policy. Across the …

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In Memory of Recently Departed Members of the Amor and Exile Community

Nicole — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 18:05:01 +0000

A well-known Mexican tradition worldwide on November 1st is Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. The custom is one of inviting dead loved ones back into families’ homes for remembrance, honoring and celebration of their lives, at a time when the earthly “veil” between the living and the dead is thinner than …

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A Journey North, Amidst the Rhizosphere

Nicole — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 03:01:51 +0000

I’ve had an announcement I’ve been trying to make for some time now, one of those once in a lifetime kind of bits of news that deserve a proper time, place, and style. BUT since this new reality is hurtling toward us with a seemingly daily accelerating pace, unforgivingly preventing me from doing things “as …

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eCornell Keynote with Amor and Exile co-authors, 7/7

Nicole — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 15:08:12 +0000

In a virtual homecoming of sorts, Nicole and Nathaniel, both ’99 Cornell alumni, will speak with Christopher Wofford, producer, in an eCornell Keynote, on July 7, 2021, at 2 pm EDT. They’ll address what compelled them to write and publish Amor and Exile in 2013, how very little has changed since then – aside from …

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Nicole to Speak at Democrats Abroad Immigration Reform Panel, 3/25

Nicole — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 23:29:19 +0000

Nicole Salgado, co-author of Amor and Exile, will speak as part of a panel on immigration reform hosted by Democrats Abroad on Thursday, March 25, 2021, at 2:30-3:30pm Eastern Time (US & Canada). Nicole will talk about her experience in immigration exile, as well as the need to include mixed-status families like hers in immigration …

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Tell Your Elected Officials: Include Mixed Status Families in Immigration Reform

Nicole — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 18:47:04 +0000

Last fall, the American Families United Act was sponsored by Congressional Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX). This March, although the AFU Act had not yet reached the House floor, the Dream and Promise Act and the Farmworker Modernization Act were passed in the House last week, both without amendments to include undocumented spouses of American citizens. …

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Amor and Exile co-author to return from exile with family

Nicole — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:03:28 +0000

QUERÉTARO, México | RALEIGH, N. Carolina Nicole Salgado, co-author of the book Amor and Exile: True Stories of Love Across America’s Borders, will travel to the United States next week for the first time with her whole family, including her American citizen daughter and her husband Margarito (Margo) Resendiz. Margo was finally granted an immigrant …

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Juarez Serenade

Nicole — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 23:12:24 +0000

On October 21st, 2019, our family experienced a thousand lives in one day, literally and vicariously. From where I sat at Pancake Paradise, for two hours from 7:45 to 10 am, I watched hundreds of families walk up and down the stairs leading to the pedestrian bridge over the boulevard along which lies the U.S. …

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The list: for a former sister-in-exile

Nicole — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 14:50:29 +0000

In the going on 13 years I’ve been in Mexico, we’ve had to say “goodbye” to several good friends who have moved “back north” or elsewhere. In Amor and Exile, I wrote about a variety of different reasons that other expats end up down here in Querétaro and the solidarity we have being foreigners who’ve …

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The Waiver (I-212)

Nicole — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 16:51:42 +0000

I’ve been trying since last November, then again in January, April, and June to sit down and properly share our immigration status. But the last year has been lived in the moment, with little luxury of time to write and muse about it all. I lost my grandmother, started to swim, turned 40, have weathered budget …

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Provisions

Nicole — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:36:40 +0000

provision Definition (From Merriam-Webster online): 1a :the act or process of providing b :the fact or state of being prepared beforehand c :a measure taken beforehand to deal with a need or contingency :preparation made provision for replacements 2:a stock of needed materials or supplies; especially :a stock of food — usually used in plural * * * * * * Not much has changed …

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Fumbling toward fireworks

Nicole — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 23:58:00 +0000

Author’s Note: Something fairly big happened in our immigration journey in the past few months, news that, given how much of a watershed moment it represents, I really would have expected myself to have shared sooner. And yet, for reasons I explore below, I have been mulling over how to share, or perhaps unconsciously putting …

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A little goes a long way

Guest — Mon, 01 May 2017 20:07:04 +0000

California

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Abrazos

Guest — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 04:17:06 +0000

Chesterton, Indiana

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Live, Love, and Learn from your Neighbors

Guest — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 03:35:10 +0000

Santa Cruz, CA

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Buffalo’s Old West Side and the “City of Good Neighbors”

Guest — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 19:17:10 +0000

A recent NYT article is a testament to how one city—Buffalo, NY–has continued to welcome all immigrants and refugees–including my parents and grandparents– since the late 19th century on. Just in the last ten years, Buffalo has placed 10,000 immigrants from the Middle East alone. Before that, the “Old West Side,” a low-income neighborhood near Lake …

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Airport Customs experience

Guest — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 19:11:08 +0000

Baltimore,Md

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American values

Guest — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 02:33:30 +0000

baltimore

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#FIND_THE_MISSING_PIECE

Guest — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 14:51:59 +0000

Mountain Home ,Idaho

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