ONCE UPON A DREAMER
A WEEK AFTER TAKING SHOTS at President Trump’s immigration policies on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Showlast January, Grammy-nominated rapper She’yaa “21 Savage” Bin Abraham-Joseph was detained for ten days by U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement. Born in the U.K., Abraham-Joseph moved to Atlanta at age 7 with his family and had overstayed his original visa by many years. “He’s a gangster,” the 27-year-old performer said of the president in an October interview with Forbes. “He don’t give a damn.”
21 Savage, a member of the 2019 Under 30, is a “Dreamer” — one of an estimated 3.6 million people living in the U.S. after having arrived undocumented as a youth. Among them are nearly 800,000 who, by meeting
