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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

San Antonio students! The 2026 Congressional App Challenge has launched! Have an idea for an app? Now’s your chance to build it.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just two months after giving birth to her son, Adela Nohemy Castellanos is locked away at the Dilley Trailer Prison with her 10-year-old daughter, Sofia. They are separated from dad and three other siblings.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today we remember the victims of Hamas’ brutal attack on October 7th. We join the families in mourning loved ones who never returned home, and the hostage victims that will be forever scarred.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Innocent children at the Dilley Trailer Prison are suffering. Trump is responsible for their trauma. While he's in San Antonio today, I challenged him to join me in Dilley, look these children in their eyes, and tell them they deserve this.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Donald Trump estará en San Antonio mañana. Lo invito a visitar la Prisión de Remolques de Dilley y a ver con sus propios ojos el trauma que les está infligiendo a niños y bebés, algunos de tan solo dos meses de edad.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Americans are getting swept up in Trump’s immigration dragnet. Over 500 U.S. citizens that we know of. Even more that we don’t. ICE’s lawlessness spares no one.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Donald Trump will be in San Antonio tomorrow. I invite him to visit the Dilley Trailer Prison, and see for himself the trauma he is inflicting on children and babies, some as young as two months old.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just got another hardworking young man with no criminal record (who came in 'the right way) out of Karnes Detention Center. President Trump, you'll be in San Antonio on Wednesday. Come see the Dilley Trailer Prison that traumatizes young children.

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Just got another hardworking young man with no criminal record out of Karnes Detention Center.

YouTube video by JoaquinCastroTX

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Texans know Big Bend is one of our greatest natural treasures. And it belongs to all of us. It's great news that a federal judge halted construction of Trump's reckless border wall that would run through it.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

San Antonio—Today is the last day to register to vote in Texas. Check your registration or register to vote here: votetexas.gov Make sure you have a plan to vote this election, and encourage family and friends to vote this November!

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump is coming to San Antonio Wednesday. I invited him to the Dilley Trailer Prison. He should face the children he’s traumatizing. Can the president look these innocent children in the eyes and tell them they deserve to be there?

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, I held a field hearing in San Antonio to examine ICE's growing and harmful presence in our city, and push back against the proposed ICE warehouse on the East Side.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last month, I motioned to subpoena the Trump Administration for records regarding its deal with Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt for Venezuelan oil. This week, we were able to secure a limited set of documents from the administration regarding this shady deal.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wilber Garcés Pérez still has a bullet lodged in his back after being shot by an ICE agent. He is finally scheduled for surgery today. But ICE is refusing to let his wife be by his side. My office is pushing for her to be allowed there to support him. ICE has done enough to torment this family.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Settlers are driving Palestinians from their homes in a violent land grab. Sanctions can stop it. I'm introducing legislation—alongside Reps. Dean, Beyer, Casar, Jacobs, Escobar—that imposes sanctions against anyone looking to take Palestinian land in the West Bank or Gaza.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Under Netanyahu’s government, settlers are engaged in a violent land grab that’s ripping Palestinians from their land. Sanctions can help stop it.

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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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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Update on Pedro Mendoza Chávez: While he was in the hospital, ICE refused to let his wife see or speak to him, and an officer told her he had fallen. Pedro, 63, says agents kicked him to the ground. Instead of being in a hospital, he's at an ICE detention facility in Taylor, Texas.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pedro Mendoza Chavez was caught up in ICE’s dragnet in San Antonio, leaving him hospitalized with a head injury that required stitches. His wife has no idea where he is and has not been able to speak with him. My office is in contact with his family, and we will continue monitoring his case.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Trump's mass deportation campaign is tearing apart communities across the country. Texas ranks 4th in the nation for ICE arrests, and San Antonio is being hit hard. Now ICE wants to open a warehouse on our East Side to be run by the same company behind Alligator Alcatraz.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Garnet Coleman represented his Houston community and stood up for Texans whose voices too often went unheard. His legacy lives on in protecting children's Medicaid, CHIP, the Sandra Bland Act, and his lifelong fight for better mental health care.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spring 2027 internship applications are officially open! We're looking for college students and recent grads to join our San Antonio and Washington, D.C. offices and help serve the people of our community. I'm excited to work with the next generation of leaders.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ICE's treatment of Wilber thus far has amounted to torture.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The way ICE has treated Wilbur Garcés Pérez amounts to torture. All of this with a bullet lodged in his back and unable to move the left side of his body. Tomorrow I will visit Wilber with Congressman Greg Casar and report back on his condition.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Despite losing movement on his left side and having a bullet lodged next to his spine, ICE has forced Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez out of the hospital and back to the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, Texas. It is nothing more than a prison.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Update on the condition of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez at the South Texas Ice Processing Center. He’s being taken to the hospital. He is in tremendous pain and tells us that the bullet is still inside his left side. He can’t move the left side of his body.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An ICE agent shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez in Austin on Sunday. Instead of receiving medical care, he was sent to an ICE prison. No pain medicine, made to sleep on the floor, and threatened with deportation.

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The Austin Ice shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Breaking: ICE shot and injured a man in Austin, Texas, earlier today. Trump has allowed ICE to flood our streets and put our communities in harms way again and again and Governor Abbott is complicit every time. I am demanding the body camera footage and full accountability.

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ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say

An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump invaded Venezuela for oil, graft, and power. Then he set up a shady oil fund. Billions of dollars are at stake and Congress knows next to nothing about the fund or the deal he cut to get Venezuelan oil on discount.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump's mass deportation campaign is ripping away workers from construction sites, farms, and hospitals. Americans are paying for it. #icetax

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you all for the birthday wishes!

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trump invadió Venezuela y se apoderó de sus campos petroleros hace nueve meses. Desde entonces han cambiado de manos miles de millones de dólares y no sabemos quién se está beneficiando.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Trump invaded Venezuela and took over its oil fields nine months ago. Billions of dollars have changed hands since and we don't know who is benefiting.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

To kick off Hispanic Heritage Month, help me nominate songs and albums by Latino artists for the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. Let’s not leave Texas out! Submit your favorite songs and albums by Texas artists too.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I had the pleasure of welcoming Greek Ambassador Antonis Alexandridis to my office last week. We discussed the importance of a strong U.S.-Greece alliance, and our shared goals for security and prosperity. I look forward to continuing to strengthen our strategic partnership.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Shanah Tovah to all those celebrating Rosh Hashanah! Wishing health and happiness in this new year.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Diesel just hit a record $6 a gallon, driven by Trump's war with Iran. It moves 76% of American freight, so this war's cost is already showing up on your grocery bill. This is the price of a forever war Trump promised he'd never start.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Twenty-five years ago, we lost nearly 3,000 lives during the attack on September 11th, including 184 at the Pentagon and aboard American Airlines Flight 77.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today I reunited with Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian at his school, Valley View Elementary in Minnesota. The last time I was with them, I was escorting them back home from the Dilley Trailer Prison. Liam's mom was 3 months pregnant at the time. Today, I met Liam's new brother.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ICE awarded a more than $17 million contract to the company behind Alligator Alcatraz to run a converted warehouse on San Antonio's East Side. This kind of facility goes against San Antonio's values, and it would hold back an area that's already fighting for growth.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

200,000 Salvadorans in the United States face deportation if they lose temporary protected status—today. Many have U.S. citizen children and deep roots in our communities. On top of that, El Salvador continues to be rife with humanitarian and human rights crises.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Congratulations to Lonnie G. Bunch III on 38 years of service with the Smithsonian Institution!

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The United Kingdom’s decision to impose sanctions and a trade ban on settlements is a step in the right direction. The expansion of Israeli settlements is an ugly land grab carried out through violence and terrorism. Any American President serious about achieving peace should do the same.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On Labor Day and every day, I stand with the workers who keep our communities running. As they face growing challenges, I stand with the men and women fighting for fair pay, safe conditions, and the dignity they deserve.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Israeli settlers are committing record levels of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Instead of confronting them, the House of Representatives just passed a bill that would threaten the education of American citizen’s to protect Israeli settlements. I voted No.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Flock cameras threaten our national security. Why? Because in Texas and across the country, agencies are not storing your Flock camera data safely or securely.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The mother of David Garcia, a first year Naval Academy midshipman from San Antonio, was deported last night to Mexico. Yesterday, after my office worked day and night toward her release, I shared the news with the family and David.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For each baby, child and pregnant woman thrown into the Dilley Trailer Prison, there is an American company—CoreCivic—with American investors profiting from their suffering. ICE must be disbanded and we must shut down Dilley.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Over the weekend, intense storms and flooding knocked out power for over 250,000 CPS Energy customers in San Antonio. If you are one of the fewer than 2,000 folks still without power, contact CPS Energy at 210-353-4357.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This administration’s actions in Venezuela have never been about democracy or drugs. It’s always been about oil, power, graft and enriching Trump’s cronies. Why would they risk free elections in Venezuela when interim President Delcy Rodríguez is handing over all the oil and perks they want?

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