“I’ve been singing Woody’s songs since I was a kid, since my mom won a copy of one of his albums of children’s songs in a radio contest. I’ve known ‘Deportee’ for a long time - I never imagined that an 80-year old song would mean so much more in these challenging times.” SOFIA REI adds “Collaborating with The Klezmatics, with their deep sense of history and musical courage, felt like weaving many strands of resistance into a shared voice across cultures and borders. Today, ‘Deportee’ asks us to break the silence around human stories and to hear migrants not as statistics, but as fellow travelers on this shared earth.”