内容摘要：In 1985, a sitcom about four women who were considered past their prime debuted in prime time. “The Golden Girls” turned out to be a ratings hit for NBC for seven seasons. After 40 years, people of all ages are still thanking Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty and Betty White for being their friend. The

In 1985, a sitcom about four women who were considered past their prime debuted in prime time. “The Golden Girls” turned out to be a ratings hit for NBC for seven seasons. After 40 years, people of all ages are still thanking Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty and Betty White for being their friend. The

Previous administrations have also prioritized people who are considered public safety threats so that strategy isn’t necessarily new.What is different under the Trump administration is that ICE agents now have authority to arrest other people they find with immigration violations when they’re going after “the worst of the worst.” These are

and they weren’t allowed under the Biden administration. As one ICE agent described it:Immigration enforcement officials have long complained about countries that do not take their citizens back when the U.S. has determined they can be deported.Some countries don’t take back any of their citizens. Others are selective, especially when it comes to people with criminal convictions or who’ve committed particularly egregious crimes. And according to a 2001 Supreme Court ruling, ICE cannot hold someone for more than six months if there is no reasonable chance to expect they can be sent back to their home country.

Historically that has meant that immigration enforcement officials have had to release people into the U.S. that it wants to deport but can’t.To get around this problem, the Trump administration has leaned on other countries to accept people who are not their own citizens. The most high profile of these deals was announced in February by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a trip to El Salvador. That country has taken Venezuelans that the U.S. alleges are gang members and is holding them at a notorious prison.

Costa Rica and Panama have also taken citizens who are not their own although they were not imprisoned. Many of them have gone home or moved to third countries.

Outside of those three Central American nations, the Trump administration has said it’s exploring other third countries for deportations. More recently there’s been indications the U.S. may be trying to sendShirin kept thinking of Kian throughout the decade-long separation. Even though Shirin kept in touch with her female friends from her high school days, she always had a sense of unfulfillment, a sense of pessimism and skepticism. Her parents had separated when she was in college.

“Shirin thinks there is an ugliness inside her sometimes, some kind of repressed anger that she takes out on other people in her mind,” the author writes.But her thoughts of Kian, and her desire for them to be together again one day, give her a sense of hope and relief.

When the two reunite again in London at their friend Millie’s 27th birthday party, Shirin’s love for her old friend resurfaces. But it comes a little too late: Salma, who Kian was now seeing, is also at the party. Shirin even asks Kian to kiss her, but he doesn’t because she’s drunk.These would-be lovers have one final meeting — at a dinner party in New York in 2020, where Kian is now living. She confesses to having a lot of regrets and that she had been thinking about him during their decade-long separation. Kian confesses he had imagined her kissing him while they were in school.