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Harnessing the power of American voices to enact policy change that guarantees full labor, civil and political rights for immigrants and their families. www.AmericasVoice.org

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 02/10/2026
DHS violence is out of control. They are shooting people in broad daylight, pointing guns at U.S. citizens, and terrorizing our communities, including right here in Northern Virginia. We owe it to the victims and their families to investigate this misconduct and hold these agents accountable.
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz @wassermanschultz.house.gov · 02/10/2026
A whistleblower told us that ICE detained hundreds of people in a garage and chained them overnight in Miramar, flagrantly violating a court order banning them from holding people longer than 12 hours. This treatment—without due process—is torture. We must keep fighting back.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Another death in ICE custody, a 21-year-old who died by suicide after his mother was detained, and the Supreme Court allowing third-country deportations to resume for now. These are not isolated stories. Read our new #AbuseOfPowerWatch newsletter by @yunao08.bsky.social for more.
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Abuse of Power Watch - October 2nd
A weekly collection of articles and stories of the federal government’s abuses of power.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good news: Wilber Garces Perez finally had surgery to remove the bullet that was in his back for 11 days. It took far too long, and it's more proof of ICE cruelty. But we kept up the pressure, and Wilber got the care he needed. Speaking up for our neighbors works.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“What is happening in the name of our government is cruel, criminal and calculated. It is Stephen Miller’s intent to drive out of this country every nonwhite person he possibly can.”
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Do not become numb to the cruelty of this administration
Another day and another news report of a Trump administration cruelty related to immigrants and immigration policies.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Wilber Garces Perez was shot in the back in Austin by an ICE agent who wasn't wearing a body camera, weeks after DHS promised every officer in the field would have one," said @repcasar.bsky.social: pingree.house.gov/news/documen...
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Reps. Pingree, Garcia, Casar Call for Accountability After Three ICE Shootings and Body Camera Failures
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National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org · 02/10/2026
As of October 1, many immigrants will begin to lose access to Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage, leaving many without access to the essential health care they need. What immigrants need to know about the new restrictions ⤵️ bit.ly/4dfuYj8
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What Immigrants Need to Know About the New Medicaid Eligibility Restrictions
Congress has introduced Medicaid eligibility restrictions for immigrants who have experienced domestic violence and human trafficking, among others.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social is leading a field hearing on the impacts of mass deportation and ICE's new proposed facility. “With supercharge funding, we’ve witnessed a brutal mass deportation campaign that trampling on the Constitution, targeting our communities, and in fact, it’s proving deadly.”
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Field Hearing : Examining the Community Impacts of Mass Deportation and Proposed ICE Warehouse
YouTube video by JoaquinCastroTX
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Rep. Rob Menendez @menendez.house.gov · 02/10/2026
Deporting people to countries where they have zero ties is indefensible. We will not back down. We will keep fighting to protect our communities.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Following the horrific killings of Houston dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Maine dad Johan Sebastián, ICE claimed that agents would be equipped w/body cams by the end of August. But The Post reports that the recruit who shot Garcés Pérez in the back was not using his government-issued body cam👇🏽
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"With a bullet still lodged in his back, Garcés Pérez appeared in court in a wheelchair. His attorneys said he still urgently needs medical care, 10 days after being shot." Wilber should be receiving the medical care he urgently needs, not sitting in a courtroom in pain. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
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Judge keeps immigrant delivery driver shot by ICE in custody for alleged assault
Prosecutors presented a video from cameras at a nearby business, but the shooting of Wilber Garcés Pérez wasn’t captured on the video shared in court.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Enough of treating Wilbur like his life doesn’t matter, like his pain doesn’t matter, like whether he lives/dies doesn’t matter” Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot in the back by an ICE recruit. 11 days later, he still has a bullet lodged in his body. ✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social + @yunao08.bsky.social
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ICE Promised ICE Agents Would Have Body Cams By August. The Recruit Who Shot A DoorDash Delivery Worker Wasn’t Using One
As ICE again attempts to escape accountability, Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez remains in detention and in need of urgent medical care.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renée Good was senselessly killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis. Her mother Donna Ganger spoke to us about her daughter and her fight for change to end this violence. Oversight Dems will keep fighting for justice and make sure that nobody in this country has to live in fear.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀: After ICE detained Minerva Terrones, her 21-year-old son Samuel, who had been diagnosed with depression and schizophrenia, lost the support she gave him. Weeks later, he died by suicide. A federal judge later found his mother had been held illegally. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
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His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide
Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latino history is American history. For centuries, Latino communities have helped shape this country, and today, the more than 60 million Latinos continue to "help fuel our economy and enrich our nation as entrepreneurs, athletes, artists, entertainers, scientists, public servants, and much more.”
A social media graphic with a orange to red gradient background and the list of Latin American countries in alphabetical order (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela) with the main text saying "Latinos have always been here and always will be."
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE detention, marking the 26th death in ICE custody in 2026.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Everybody stepped up in Oswego and decided the safety of our own was more important.” Two men stayed on a roof of a home in Oswego, NY for nearly six hours Wednesday as federal immigration agents tried to arrest them.
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How strangers helped two men evade an immigration arrest: ‘Everybody stepped up in Oswego’
On the fly, a crowd hatched a plan to rescue two men stuck on a roof for six hours to avoid the Border Patrol.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Ronaldo visits the site where his father was killed at least once a day, and every day he finds someone there who wants to talk,” TIME reported. “Sometimes it’s a neighbor, but often it’s a traveler from other parts of Texas, from Arizona, from New Mexico, from Minnesota.”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“On his first full day of his second term as president, Trump rescinded an internal government policy that generally discouraged immigration raids at ‘sensitive locations,’ such as schools, hospitals and churches.” Recall that this was a Project 2025 demand: americasvoice.org/blog/armed-a...
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Armed Agents Storming Churches, Schools, and Hospitals: The Potential Devastation of Project 2025’s ICE Raids - America's Voice
Tucked into the immigration priorities of the Heritage Foundation’s radical Project 2025 plan is a provision that, despite its two-sentence brevity, would have devastating consequences by allowing Ste...
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 30/09/2026
Last year, a pastor saw masked immigration agents arresting someone at her church and filmed them. DHS denied they were there. A year later, DHS finally acknowledged the incident — days after WH border czar Tom Homan claimed "no one has been arrested at a church." religionnews.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Do federal immigration agents make arrests at churches? Depends on what day you ask.
(RNS) — Over the past year, the Trump administration has issued contradictory and, at times, seemingly false statements about whether federal agents have conducted operations at churches.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last month, “a 20-year-old Haitian man in Springfield, Ohio, walked into oncoming traffic after the Trump administration ended his Temporary Protected Status and ICE fitted him with an ankle monitor.” His name was Pierre Damas Bel.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The family of Renee Good has sued the Trump administration over her fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis in January. "Good, 37, was ​shot dead in her car by a US ICE agent on January 7, when she ‌and her wife joined one of the city's daily protests against masked and armed federal agents"
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Renee Good's family sues Trump administration over fatal Minneapolis shooting
The family of Renee Good, one of two US citizens fatally shot by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis in January, sued US President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday over her killing duri...
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 01/10/2026
ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office. That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system.
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The Progressive Caucus @usprogressives.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"ICE is an agency of masked men and unmarked vehicles with a blank check from Donald Trump" @repcasar.bsky.social
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This Friday, I'm hosting a field hearing on the impacts of mass deportation and ICE's proposed warehouse on San Antonio's East Side.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am less pessimistic about this than I am about the third-country removal case, but I have no illusions that this is an easy case for advocates. But this is a situation where nearly every federal judge in the country has already weighed in, and the vast majority have rejected Trump's views.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A victory for the government in this case would greenlight long-term mass civil detention at a level not seen since Japanese internment during WWII. It would represent the largest change in how the US treats immigrants facing removal since 1996, and remind us again that the 96 law must be erased.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“He says the military viewed Catholic clergy who advocated for social justice and human rights as communists. He was detained, beaten and hospitalized, he says.”
"A moral obligation"

Rivas grew up in El Salvador during another tumultuous era. A military coup in 1979 led to a deadly decade-long civil war between the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government and a left-wing guerrilla group backed by Cuba. 

Rivas decided to become a Catholic priest at age 27. He says the military viewed Catholic clergy who advocated for social justice and human rights as communists. He was detained, beaten and hospitalized, he says.
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National Immigration Law Center @nilc.org · 30/09/2026
Rev. Vidal Rivas is ready to become the temporary guardian of 31 kids if ICE detains their parents.​ ‌ As the Trump admin rips families apart, our neighbors are stepping up to protect one another—extraordinary acts of love that our government should've never made necessary. bit.ly/4iIOVT3
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This Priest Pledges to Care For 31 Kids If ICE Detains Their Parents
A Maryland priest has agreed to become the standby guardian for 31 children whose immigrant parents fear arrest and deportation.
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: Federal funding cuts to legal aid programs serving migrant children are forcing organizations to lay off staff and withdraw from cases. Attorneys continue representing children, often without pay. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
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First Trump came for immigrants. Then he came for their lawyers.
How legal aid groups survived the administration’s attacks—barely.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Roughly 15,000 documented immigrants in New England will lose full Medicaid coverage on Thurs... The people affected by the health insurance restrictions incl. refugees, asylum holders, and some groups of parolees and victims of human trafficking who do not yet hold green cards but may be eligible"
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These New England immigrants arrived legally. Now, thousands will lose Medicaid benefits. - The Boston Globe
In Massachusetts alone, 7,300 people are expected to lose access to full Medicaid coverage Thursday.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And the “ICE Tax” isn't theoretical. Lettuce up 32.1%. Home health care up 10.7%. 668,000 jobs lost. This administration chose mass deportation instead of bringing down costs, and families are stuck footing the bill. It's time to #EndTheICETax.
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AFT @aft.org · 30/09/2026
Trump's extreme deportation agenda is driving up prices, eliminating jobs, and gutting local economies. Read the new "ICE Tax" report from @americasvoice.bsky.social ⤵️
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NEW REPORT: America's Voice "End the ICE Tax" Finds Mass Deportation Is Driving Up Costs and Straining Minnesota's Economy - America's Voice
The Twin Cities know first hand the pain and violence of ICE raids; Another casualty is to the economy MINNESOTA – A new report from America’s Voice, “End the ICE Tax,”…
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Listen to these stories. We must protect TPS for Haitian immigrants.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Our dad was not a criminal. He was just a man who loved his family and woke up before the rest of the world did to put an honest day’s work." - Ronaldo Salgado speaking about his father, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo TIME has recognized him and his brother as Latino Leaders 2026. ✍️: @tusk81.bsky.social
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TIME Names Houston Dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s Sons To Latino Leaders 2026 List
“Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr. were born U.S. citizens, and feel a sense of responsibility to use their voices to call for change.”
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the Trump administration shifted to a “quieter” approach to immigration enforcement. But as the timeline shows, “less visible enforcement is no less aggressive on the ground today and continues to ramp up in multiple ways."
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From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivot
After switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the US
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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 30/09/2026
DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin has been claiming that huge numbers of noncitizens are registered to vote. We asked DHS for evidence backing up those claims. It failed to respond. We’re suing. If DHS has any evidence, it needs to prove it. americanoversight.org/press-releas...
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Watchdog Sues DHS For Evidence Behind Sec. Mullin’s Claim of 250,000 Noncitizen Voters
American Oversight Seeks Records Showing Basis of DHS’ Claims and How Agency Used Them to Pressure Four States
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 30/09/2026
I encourage you to open this article to read these stories for yourself. It’s a disgrace that this is happening with our taxpayer dollars in our name.
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump's administration resume deporting migrants ​to countries other than their own without offering them the chance to show the harms they may face, bolstering a tool his administration has used for rapid ‌expulsions as part of his immigration crackdown."
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Supreme Court lets Trump resume deporting migrants to countries not their own
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday let President Donald Trump's administration resume deporting migrants ​to countries other than their own without offering them the chance to show the harms they may fac...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TODAY: @governor.ca.gov signed legislation to protect California communities by addressing detention, enforcement transparency, civil rights, public records, family services and oversight. "This is about stepping up where the federal government has failed our communities."
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Governor Newsom signs bills to push back on Trump’s Orwellian immigration tactics to protect immigrant communities | Governor of California
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Labor market data reveals “leisure and hospitality industries were hit hardest, losing 4,000 jobs in Jan. 2026 alone. ‘Excluding the pandemic, these are the largest employment declines Minnesota has seen in both leisure and hospitality and accommodation and food services since 2007.’” #EndtheICETax
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JUST IN: 75% of Latino voters in 7 battleground states want candidates backing work permits for long-term immigrant workers, mirroring the call by 200+ Hispanic leaders with Comité de 100 to President Trump. #TheTimeisNow for protections for long-term immigrants: comitede100.org/the-time-is-now/
New Poll

Latino Voters in Battleground States Support Work Permits

75% more likely to support a candidate who backs work permits for long-term, law-abiding immigrant workers

76% prefer a candidate who supports a path to legal status over one who supports mass deportation

Source: BSP Research + Shaw & Co. n=1,353 |
AZ • FL • GA • NC • OH • PA •
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 29/09/2026
UPDATE: ICE says it bought four robot dogs for $1.3 million in part for cross-border tunnel operations. It also says the robots will help tactical teams, listen for movement inside buildings, and look on top of closets and bunk beds.
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ICE buys $1.3 million in robot dogs from Connecticut company
The agency bought the robots without seeking competing bids, and chose a version built to detect chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazards.
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Rep. Emily Randall @repemilyrandall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thoughts and prayers are not enough.    To the families of those who were shot and killed by ICE agents – you and the American people deserve accountability, justice, and policy changes that will prevent atrocities like these from happening in the future.
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