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What do you do if you're the county Republican Party in El Paso, Texas — where the population is Hispanic and President Trump is wildly unpopular?

You try to recruit new American citizens into the GOP minutes after they take the oath of citizenship. Get 'em while they're fresh.

On Wednesday, 947 new citizens hailing from 49 different countries took the oath in the El Paso Coliseum just a few miles from the U.S. southern border. Most of the oath-takers have lived in the U.S. for years, and the vast majority of them came here from Mexico.

"So often the impression is the Republican party is anti-immigrant," said Bob Peña, executive director of the El Paso GOP. "No, we’re anti illegal immigrant."

VICE News followed the El Paso GOP as it tried to make the Republican case to the new citizens — and found themselves trying to make the party of Trump appealing to Mexican-Americans.

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In Colombia, cultivation of coca, the main ingredient of cocaine, has nearly tripled over the past five years. As part of the 2016 peace agreement between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country has embarked on a unique experiment to try to end coca farming and production, but freeing Colombia from its cocaine problem is proving difficult. Charlet Duboc travels to the remote towns where coca farming is a way of life to examine the struggle for a cocaine-free Colombia.

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You might have heard his voice in Beyonce's "Formation" video, or Drake's, "Nice For What."

Meet Big Freedia: a musician known as the "Queen of Bounce," a genre of hip hop with New Orleans roots.

We surrounded Big Freedia with his ultimate vices–purses, massage therapy, and ice– in exchange for some honest answers about his life, in "The VICE Interview."

First- we loosened him up with his vices.

And of course, we won Big Freedia's heart by combining his love of ice chips with his appreciate for a nicely-formed derriere, and got him an ice butt sculpture.

"Now this is an ass I’ll eat," said Big Freedia. "I'm addicted to ice, I like certain types of ice: like the little small pellets, or I like the really flaky ice."

Afterwards, Big Freedia shared some personal stories (a goblet of ice chips in hand, of course).

On life as Freddie vs Big Freedia: "A lot of people think that I am trans but I'm not trans," said Big Freedia. "I am a gay male with hair and nails. So if you say 'he' or 'she' it doesn't matter. I know who you I am."

He also addressed what it was like to be heard but not seen in Beyonce and Drake's music videos.

"So a lot of people think that they didn’t want me in it visually, but our schedules didn't line up," said Big Freedia." And it's OK for me like, my voice being in it is a start. And that's important for me and for the LGBTQ community. For me, as long as the check clear, I'm fine."

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In their first installment of Music Critic, Charli XCX reviews: Death Cab for Cutie's "Goldrush, Ariana Grande's "God is Woman", Trevor Powers's "XTQ Idol", Belmont's "Hollowed Out"

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This is the August 8, 2018 FULL EPISODE of VICE News Tonight on HBO.

1:57 This weekend marks a year since the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. VICE News meets Nikuyah Walker, the city's first black female mayor, and learns about her efforts to revive Charlottesville after the tragedy.

7:05 In just the last few months, Jeff Sessions has imposed quotas on immigration judges and personally decided on cases, setting precedent that makes it harder to rule in favor of immigrants. But immigration judges are fighting back.

10:14 Jeff Diztenberger is a corn and soy farmer. His suicide attempt was 25 years ago. In 2015, he started a support group to break what he says is a stigma around farmers talking about mental illness.

17:17 The players in one of Los Angeles’ recreational softball leagues come from neighborhoods associated with the city’s Crips gangs.

22:49 We had fashion legend André Leon Talley critique Paul Manafort's ostentatious clothes that were presented as evidence in court

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Chinese consumers buy a full third of all luxury goods sold across the globe. But they're getting sick of celebrity endorsements.

That's where Mr. Bags comes in.

Mr. Bags, whose real name is Tao Liang, started out as a college student studying finance. But his real passion was women's handbags, and so he started up a blog about it.

The content was simple: reviews of women's handbags, advice on new trends — stuff you'd normally see in a fashion magazine. But Mr Bags struck a nerve among young Chinese who were getting bored with pushy editorials and cheesy advertising, and 4 years and 4 million followers later, he's gone from a tiny blog to being the singular most influential voice in the Chinese handbags industry.

And he's not just writing about bags nowadays — he's making them. Prestigious design houses like Givenchy and Tod's have signed him up to design limited-run bags for them.

To see how one 26 year old has flipped the Chinese luxury market on its head, watch the video above.

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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and the city of Charlottesville have declared a state of emergency this weekend, in preparation for the year anniversary of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally.

The organizers were denied a permit and don’t plan to meet in Charlottesville again. Instead, they will be hosting a rally in D.C. But the city of Charlottesville is still preparing for the possibility of violence.

VICE News spent time with Mayor Nikuyah Walker, the city’s first black female elected to the position, and explores what it's been like for the Charlottesville native to revive the city after a tragedy.

"My hope is that we do this work of transforming the current state of the city so well that people will come and ask us how we did that," Walker told VICE News. ​"And that we may become a model for how true change happens in a country that has been struggling with truth for almost 400 years." ​

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Desde que fue separada en la frontera, esta familia sufrió un proceso tortuoso de 51 días hasta ser reunida.

Esta es su historia.

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Rachel Bull, editor, Brand Republic talks us through the new site.