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The pushback reached a crescendo on Thursday, when — with just a few hours notice — Bass assembled more than 100 people from religious, community, business and civic groups to denounce the raids.

His mass of young interns assembled and rushed to hear him from below as he watched with amusement from his balcony above the action.

Grande’s opinion was one of the first Erivo sought as she assembled “I Forgive You”; the pop star, Erivo says, “is one of the most intelligent producers and songwriters that exists. She has amazing ears.”

A makeshift DJ booth, assembled from a couple of upended shopping carts and some speakers, is at one edge of the checkerboard in the dimly lighted room, underscoring the general do-it-yourself ethos of Rosales’ aesthetic.

But the shirtless inmates who were assembled behind her for the occasion were not those sent there by the U.S., nor those who were the “worst of the worst.”