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Betty Alzamora

@betty-unplugged.bsky.social
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I'm a bit like my martinis: very dry and with a twist. Board member Indivisible Chicago Alliance & Equality Illinois, advocate for immigration, LGBTQ+ rights. Made in Venezuela - hasta el final. Under the spell of my cats.

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
🧊❗ ICE activity in Chicago - alert from the IL Coalition of Immigrant & Refugee Rights (ICIRR) 🧵: ICIRR Eyes on ICE Update: At approximately 1:00 pm today, the Rapid Response Network verified the presence of over 50 federal agents in Downtown Chicago... (1/x)
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I’m out, I'm sore. I'll have more later, but right now I have to say a couple of things. First, walking out of there to learn about the kindness, support, and quick action from so many of you all has meant the world to me, my wife, and co-founder, Raven. Thank you.
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
❗️ WE DEMAND THE RELEASE OF JOURNALIST STEVE HELD. Federal agents detained Chicago journalist Steve Held of the independent press platform Unraveled @unraveledpress.com on Saturday, Sept. 27, while he was reporting on the ongoing protests outside the ICE Processing Facility at Broadview, IL. (1/3)
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
REFUSE TO LOOK AWAY as people get disappeared in America. Say their names! Tell Trump you can't disappear people in a democracy - and march with us June 14 when we loudly proclaim the U.S. has NO KINGS!
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Betty Alzamora @betty-unplugged.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
This action was joyous, and it was also fueled by rage and determination to act. We will not obey in advance
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The 16-year-old was dragged away and arrested by Worcester PD because she kicked the car ICE was holding her mother in as her mom was taken away. The day earlier, ICE had taken her dad as well.
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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
NEW: Anonymous Redditor Creates Map Visualizing ICE Contracting migrantinsider.com/p/anonymous-...
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Anonymous Redditor Creates Map Visualizing ICE Contracting
Our Q&A with the mapmaker revealing a web of companies tied to immigration enforcement, sparking debate over transparency and taxpayer funds.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 24/04/2025
Understand the pattern this fascist regime is enacting. There's a term for it: Structural Eugenics Complicit Corporate media hasn't breathed a whisper about it. But make no mistake—Structural Eugenics is as horrific as it sounds. Here's what you need to know: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-is-e...
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Trump Is Enacting Structural Eugenics
It is important we understand this term, what it means for our personal safety, and why we must stand united to stop this fascism
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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
While Trump has higher disapproval ratings than approval ratings on all major issues, he has the greatest support for his immigration policy. It is sink or swim: We either end the legitimacy of anti-immigrant politics or let Trump's authoritarian machine gain steam and run us all down.
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Evaluations of Trump: Job approval and confidence on issues
Trump's job approval is down since February, especially among his less strong supporters and 2024 nonvoters. And fewer than half of Americans have confidence in Trump to handle most issues.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
there is no plan(et) b.
Earth appears as a hemisphere against the blackness of space.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 22/04/2025
Enforced disappearances have come to the United States. Hear from people who have fought them in Latin America. A week from Wednesday. Happening online. Join the discussion 4/30 at 2pm Eastern. Or bookmark it and watch later. Announcement: bit.ly/apr-30-disap... Register: bit.ly/apr-30-lessons
EVENT FLYER

WOLA / NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE

WEBINAR
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2025 2:00 - 3:30PM EDT

REGISTER ON ZOOM

THE WASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICA AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE PRESENT:
LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA AS THE UNITED STATES RECKONS WITH ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE

Speakers:

MERCEDES DORETTI
Executive Director
Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team

JUAN E. MÉNDEZ
Professor of Human Rights Law in Residence Washington College of Law, American University

MARCELA TURATI
Investigative Journalist

MORE INFORMATION & RSVP: www.wola.org/events

Moderated by:
KATE DOYLE
National Security Archive
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
With the Trump administration having terminated multiple contracts providing lawyers to unaccompanied migrant children, we're back to the bad old days of toddlers representing themselves against deportation.
In shelters across New York, migrant children sit in front of computer and TV screens, appearing virtually in real court proceedings. They swivel in chairs, walk in circles and play with their hair — while immigration judges address them on the screens in front of them. “The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex. “It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.” The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.
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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
ICE orders another U.S. Citizen to self-deport immediately. How many is that now? Anyone keeping count? www.latintimes.com/california-m...
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California Man Ordered to Leave the U.S. 'Immediately' Despite Providing Birth Certificate: 'I'm Not Trying to Be One of the Government's Mistakes'
An American citizen is unsettled after receiving an e-mail from the US Department of Homeland Security ordering him to leave the country "immediately."
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National Immigrant Justice Center @immigrantjustice.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Instead of spending BILLIONS on detention & mass deportations that cause immense harm & fear, communities want investment in education, housing for all income levels, climate resilient infrastructure, & health care that benefits everyone. Take action: bit.ly/BlockICE
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Chicago, check this out.
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The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
And now, my favorite Easter tradition.
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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Nieman Storyboard made us this list of 40 fabulous books about storytelling, from Anne Lamott to bell hooks to Stephen King. Recommended to anyone who sits (or stands) before a keyboard. @niemanstoryboard.org niemanstoryboard.org/2025/04/17/n...
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The Nieman Storyboard guide to books on storytelling - Nieman Storyboard
Journalists, authors, producers, filmmakers, and Nieman Storyboard readers share more than 40 books that inspire their work.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
People are mobilizing around demanding that airline "Avelo drop its contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to fly [deportation] charters from an airport in Mesa, Ariz." Like #TeslaTakedown, this is something that could easily grow and spread. www.nhregister.com/news/article...
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Hundreds rally at Tweed in New Haven to protest Avelo ICE deportation flights: 'They know it's wrong'
Some 150 people attended a rally outside Tweed New Haven Airport Thursday to protest Avelo's new contract to fly ICE charters out of Arizona.
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Jackie Llanos @llanosjackie.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
It is legally impossible to deport citizens. This is not deportation. Removing citizens to foreign prisons, knowing to a certainty that they will be subjected to treatment that violates the U.S. constitution, doesn’t deserve any label that connotes legal legitimacy.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 15/04/2025
I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I was recently asked if I needed to update anything from this triage list I proposed two weeks after the election for how to best protect non-citizens through what we knew was coming. Honestly, not really. It's all been pretty much as expected, if a little faster. A few notes though:
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
🚛 Another weekend of this amazing truck driving around #NY11 (and flyering around the district telling constituents how they can tell Malliotakis what they think about her voting against their healthcare- including coming to the town hall on 4/23!) @1199seiu.org @indivisible.org #HandsOff
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Tomorrow El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukeke will visit the White House - no doubt to advance plans to imprison incarcerated U.S. citizens in El Salvador.We need to stop this before it happens. Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO! 202-224-3121 open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 12/04/2025
I’ve spent about a few hours browsing Netflix and you can’t convince me they are not purposely making “white noise” content that has zero conscious entertainment value but successfully entertains your subconscious while you do something else.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 09/04/2025
OK, non-finance people: crash course in bonds. Bond prices and yields moving opposite directions. Yields on US govt bonds [“treasuries”] are surging (ie the prices are falling). Prices are falling because people are selling treasuries at a massive clip.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 09/04/2025
Republicans used to say “undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes.” Now the IRS is handing their tax data to DHS… So which is it? Seems like you’d have to pay taxes to even have tax data…
reuters.com
US IRS chief to quit over deal to share data with immigration officials, report says
The acting head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service plans to resign over a new agreement to share the tax data of undocumented immigrants with Homeland Security personnel, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the situation.
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Rafael Agustín @rafaelagustin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Trump administration: “Undocumented workers don’t pay taxes.” Also Trump administration: “Can the IRS please give us the data of the undocumented workers that don’t pay taxes?”
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 07/04/2025
2025 New Immigration Books Reading List, Your contributions needed! Help build a curated collection of fresh, thoughtful reads by sharing your favorite books about immigration. austinkocher.substack.com/p/2025-new-i...
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2025 New Immigration Books Reading List, Your contributions needed!
Help build a curated collection of fresh, thoughtful reads by sharing your favorite books about immigration.
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Michigan Mama @mamadoingsomething.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Love seeing all the people who care. Big cities are amazing, but this bravery is what makes my heart burst.
Pic of about 50 protesters in Keyser,WV, pop 4850. The deepest of red territory.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Read this.
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
THIS SUNDAY, FIGHT FOR TRANS RIGHTS! Sunday, March 30th, 1:00 pm, Federal Plaza, Chicago. Join us to stand strong with the trans & nonbinary community of Chicago at the @transupfrontil.bsky.social Rally for Trans Visibility. INFO: bit.ly/0330trans
This is a Trans Up Front Illinois graphic showing illustrations of 5 people at a rally. Each is holding or wearing a trans rights flag. Wording: Come out and fight for trans rights. Sunday, March 30th, 1 pm, Federal Plaza, Chicago. TransUpFrontIL.com
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Betty Alzamora @betty-unplugged.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Flashes, you say?
Zora the mackerel activist tabby cat is checking out Flashes. Basketball is temporarily forgotten about for now.
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
LIVE‼️ We’re here at the AIDS memorial in NYC with our friends ACT UP to commemorate their 38th anniversary. JOIN US! It’s a beautiful day to die. After some speeches we will march to Tesla for a massive die-in. ELON MUST GO! #ActUp #ActUp38 #StopMuskCuts #StopTheCoup
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
👩‍⚖️ Judge Susan Crawford in person! On Indivisible Chicago's final Saturday canvass before the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, Judge Crawford brought the 🔥 to inspire us to help get out the vote in this critical election.Thanks to all the volunteers--we're with you, Judge Crawford!
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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Much of what the Trump regime wants to carry out (eg terrorizing people into silence) is first being enacted against non-citizens. Solidarity across the citizenship divide is crucial for stopping fascism.
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Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"However, in this moment, we don’t feel apologetic or ashamed about our anger; we’d argue that anger isn’t as widespread in the U.S. as it ought to be." Bravo @jabarocas.bsky.social and @choo.bsky.social
msnbc.com
Opinion | As physicians, we're pleading with you to get a little angrier
Anger is usually looked down upon, even pathologized, but we're living in a moment where getting angry is necessary.
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Betty Alzamora @betty-unplugged.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Had the pleasure of meeting @tomcartwright.bsky.social five years ago with Witness At The Border in Brownsville TX and Matamoros MX. I remember him generously sharing basics of flight tracking, and have followed his work since. Thanks Tom, for continuing to bear witness.
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Betty Alzamora @betty-unplugged.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Same.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"What happened to Rumeysa Ozturk is chilling. Taken off the street by masked agents in unmarked cars is something we associate with authoritarian regimes, not a country that claims to uphold the rule of law, freedom and justice," said @vcardenas.bsky.social. americasvoice.org/press_releas...
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America’s Voice Statement on the Abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk - America's Voice
Washington, DC – In a deeply troubling escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants, plainclothes and masked individuals, identifying themselves as federal agents, abducted Tufts Uni...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The important thing to understand about the Trump administration is that it is always lying. It isn't simply indifferent to the truth; it has contempt for it and for those who tell it. This must be broadly understood.
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Like a broken clock, RFK Jr. manages to be right for exactly 2 seconds a day. He spends the other 86,398 seconds promoting deranged crackpot theories, hawking snake oil and undermining science and public health. You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to him.
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Last November, some described it as pointless. Others enjoyed the feeling of exercising one’s civic duty — even if it was pretend. Here's a look inside the first-ever mock election in a North Carolina prison.
prisonjournalismproject.org
Inside the First-Ever Mock Election in a North Carolina Prison
More than half the 800 incarcerated people at Nash Correctional Institution voted.
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
We need MARSHALS for April 5 SIGN UP: bit.ly/3FDVa95 We have training on 3/31 and 4/3. Info on form
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