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Wrongfully convicted deportee returns to the U.S.; Marc-Andre Hamelin's ragtimes : Here & Now Anytime President Biden is set to make an announcement regarding immigration on Thursday. NPR White House correspondent Asma Khalid has been following the announcement and joins us. Then, when Gideon Baena was wrongfully convicted of a crime, he was deported to a country he barely knew: the Philippines. After fighting his way through the legal system and having his case declared unconstitutional, Baena is back in the U.S. and starting a new chapter of his life. He joins us with his attorney, Shan Potts. And, ragtime was popularized by African-American composer Scott Joplin, known as "the king of ragtime." Canadian pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin has a new album out, "Wiliam Bolcom: The Complete Rags." Hamelin talks about tunes written in the 1960s and 1970s by composer Bolcom, and how they were inspired by early masters of ragtime. Hamelin joins us.

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Wrongfully convicted deportee returns to the U.S.; Marc-Andre Hamelin's ragtimes

Wrongfully convicted deportee returns to the U.S.; Marc-Andre Hamelin's ragtimes

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President Biden is set to make an announcement regarding immigration on Thursday. NPR White House correspondent Asma Khalid has been following the announcement and joins us.

Then, when Gideon Baena was wrongfully convicted of a crime, he was deported to a country he barely knew: the Philippines. After fighting his way through the legal system and having his case declared unconstitutional, Baena is back in the U.S. and starting a new chapter of his life. He joins us with his attorney, Shan Potts.

And, ragtime was popularized by African-American composer Scott Joplin, known as "the king of ragtime." Canadian pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin has a new album out, "Wiliam Bolcom: The Complete Rags." Hamelin talks about tunes written in the 1960s and 1970s by composer Bolcom, and how they were inspired by early masters of ragtime. Hamelin joins us.

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