Film Imagines Americans Fleeing to Safety of Mexico: 'What If We Were the Refugees?' Jerome Hudson - Breitbart
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Let Me In - We Are Here (Alicia Keys)

Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys celebrated World Refugee Day on Monday with the release of a 12-minute short film that follows the singer as she attempts to flee a fictional, war-torn Los Angeles for safety in Mexico.

“Fighting intensifies today in the United States across Southern California,” a news broadcaster says in the video, entitled Let Me In. “Thousands of U.S. citizens are fleeing towards the Mexican border seeking refuge from the violence.”

“Mexicans citizens are gathering,” the new report continues, “to protest the immigration of thousands of American refugees.”

Keys’s video is meant to get Americans to imagine what it would be like if they were forced from their homes in order to escape religious persecution or an oppressive government.

“I was stunned when I learned that there are more refugees living in the world today than at any other point in history, and half of them are children,” Keys said in a press release accompanying the release of the video. “Creating this film really allowed us to imagine, what if we were the refugees? What if we were the ones torn from the arms of our families and loved ones? How would it feel if this were happening to us?”

We Are Here Movement was founded in 2014 to empower people around a host of issues Alicia Keys cares about. They take the guesswork out of where and how to give through a curated coalition of organizations, causes and campaigns to provide the public with one-stop shopping to change the world.

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