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Coffee Break

Coffee Break: Bands that immigrated to the U.S.

As many as a thousand people gathered in protest of Donald Trump's executive order banning refugees at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017.
As many as a thousand people gathered in protest of Donald Trump's executive order banning refugees at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017.Christopher Juhn for MPR News

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by Anna Reed

January 30, 2017

On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily banning entry of citizens from Somalia and six other largely Muslim countries, as well as all refugees, from entering the United States.

Trump said the new restrictions are necessary for national security and that the ban is "working out very nicely", but the move triggered frustration and anger for many throughout the weekend including around 1,000 people that gathered on Sunday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to protest.

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what bands do you want to hear that immigrated to the U.S.?

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Songs played

Gogol Bordello - Immigrant Punk
Regina Spektor - Fidelity
KT Tunstall - Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
Fugees - No Woman No Cry
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
Van Halen - Eruption
Van Halen - You Really Got Me
David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging
John Lennon - Imagine