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Mario Carrillo

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Immigration communicator for America’s Voice. Angie's husband. Izel's dad. Haver of bad takes.

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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
@mariocarrillo.bsky.social: “One of the things that we've seen from this admin. is an intent to completely dismantle asylum, both from preventing new asylum seekers from entering the country to make their case heard, but also from instilling fear in those asylum seekers who are in the country now"
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Bellaire student's ICE arrest sparks fear in Houston's Russian community
Since the Russia-Ukraine War began, thousands have sought refuge in the United States. Some fear their status may be revoked.
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
‼️ ICE goons kidnapped a U.S. citizen in Passaic, NJ ‼️ Prior to this video being taken, he was confronting ICE for trying to kidnap his neighbors. Video from 8:25am on 7/23/26
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
As our nation marks 250 years, our Executive Director @vcardenas.bsky.social reflects on her family's own immigration story, the harm of Trump's immigration agenda, and why immigrants still believe in the promise of this country. americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/reflecting...
Reflecting On The 250th Anniversary Of Our Democracy

As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our democratic experiment, immigrants and their children are persisting day by day — even as our government kidnaps, racially profiles, and strips them of their right to live as Americans.

Who gets to be an American and who we want to be as a nation have become central to our national conversation.

- Vanessa Cárdenas  
Executive Director of America’s Voice
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📍 𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐄: Advocates are urging state leaders to intervene after families of critically ill children were told they must report their immigration status to continue receiving life-sustaining medical care. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
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Advocates for critically ill kids urge Lee to intervene before deadline to report immigration status • Tennessee Lookout
Advocates for immigrant sick and disabled kids on a last resort public health care program Tuesday urged Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to intervene.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Through the years, immigrants have been essential players helping American sports teams thrive and win. “In the 1950 #WorldCup, the U.S. team won an improbable victory over England on a goal by Haitian-born forward Joe Gaetjens”👇🏽
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Mario Carrillo @mariocarrillo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Tune in now!
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Mario Carrillo @mariocarrillo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Tune into @americasvoice.bsky.social Substack NOW for a conversation with our legal expert @davidleopold.bsky.social explaining birthright citizenship and how we got to where we are today, awaiting a SCOTUS ruling on the future on this constitutional right: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE NOW: Who Belongs? Birthright Citizenship and the Attacks on Legal Status
America's Voice on Substack
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Supreme Court's fifth and final decision is Blanche v. Lau, another 6–3 split. Per Thomas, the government does NOT require clear and convincing evidence that a green card holder committed a crime before divesting them of their lawful status at the border. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“Just weeks later, a boat carrying Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine-Cava and other high-profile guests to a Club World Cup-related event was boarded by the U.S. Coast Guard and federal immigration agents … catering staff and boat crew were required to produce documentation …”
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Trump Is Making the U.S. As Unwelcoming As Possible For the World Cup
Not even soccer fans from long-standing U.S. allies are safe from being targeted and denied entry.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"At a moment when the world's eyes are on the United States, the Trump administration is sending the opposite message," writes @mariocarrillo.bsky.social. "America would not exist if the waves of immigrants from around the world were kept from our shores." americasvoice.org/press_releas...
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The World Cup Kicks Off with the Looming Presence of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda Overhead - America's Voice
Washington, DC –  As the World Cup gets underway today and millions of fans turning their attention to soccer’s biggest stage, the lead-up to the tournament has been overshadowed by a series of incide...
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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto @cortezmasto.senate.gov · 19/05/2026
Republicans in Congress already gave Trump’s ICE and CBP over $150 billion. And that funding has been used to brutalize American communities, target Dreamers, and violate individuals’ constitutional rights. Now they want to give these agencies another $70 billion with no guardrails whatsoever.
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Yuna @yunao08.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Another reminder that our communities are being targeted. It’s not just one community over the other, but all.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“Across the U.S., A/PI adults of all ethnicities and statuses are feeling the weight of anti-immigrant policies and political rhetoric,” @stopaapihate.org said. For many, these policies have proven deadly. “Under President Trump, 41 people died in ICE custody, including 9 Asian immigrants.”
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
listen, it's also in the hands of Rep Maria Salazar if she wants her immigration bill to move she could oppose the massive funding for ICE/CBP in the reconciliation bill she'll be voting for soon. Johnson needs her vote, so she could do more than hold pressers and praise Trump She won't though
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
📍 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐒: Jose Contreras Diaz, a DACA recipient who was deported to Honduras earlier this year, was flown back to the U.S. with promises of parole. Instead of reuniting with his family, he was immediately detained by ICE upon arrival. #AbuseOfPowerWatch
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Deported ‘Dreamer’ brought back to U.S. by ICE and detained
Jose Contreras Diaz was told he was coming home. His family waited hours at a Texas airport. Instead, ICE sent him to a detention facility.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Shot. Chaser.
Photo from the 2024 Republican National Convention where people are holding "Mass Deportation NOW!" signs. Axios

Scoop: Scoop: White House tells House Republicans to stop talking about mass deportations

March 10, 2026
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"Border residents recognize the pattern." In a new guest post, @mariocarrillo.bsky.social traces how border militarization took hold. From the Bowie High School lawsuit to today’s normalization of surveillance and checkpoints. americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/a-warning-...
"What many Americans are experiencing for the first time is what border communities in the Southwest United States have lived with for decades:
the steady normalization of surveillance as daily life."

– "A Warning to Americans From a Border Resident: Once Militarization Starts, It’s Hard To End" by Mario Carrillo

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Lomi Kriel @lomikriel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
DHS should shutter the El Paso ICE camp, @repescobar.bsky.social & Dems said, noting at least one of the 3 deaths there was in part to 'poor medical care by staff.' Another a homicide involving staff. ICE alleged suicide in a third, but won't release the autopsy. texastribune.org/2026/02/26/d...
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Mario Carrillo @mariocarrillo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I don't know what level of dystopia we've reached when we tout expanding immigration detention by tens of thousands as job opportunities for local communities.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.
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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I'm not doing a lot of posting here, but I can tell you, Maine is absolutely under seige. When ICE comes in, they come bringing terror.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is an important insight. Miller, Vance, and co see immigrants as the enemy, as the other. But they also see anyone siding with immigrants, citizen or not, as the enemy, too. And they want to make sure people see that aligning with immigrants makes you vulnerable to state violence.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows: 
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

By Douglas MacMillan
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the Jan. 3 death of detainee Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp, the agency said “staff observed him in distress,” and it gave no cause of death.

An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner told Lunas Campos’s daughter this week that, subject to results of a toxicology report, the office is likely to classify the death as a homicide, according to a recording of the conversation.

In the recording, which the daughter shared with The Washington Post, the employee said a doctor there “is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression,” which means Lunas Campos did not get enough oxygen because of pressure on his neck and chest. Pending the results of a toxicology report, the staffer said on the recording, “our doctor is believing that we’re going to be listing the manner of death as homicide.”In an interview with The Post, Santos Jesus Flores, a man who says he was detained in the segregation unit the day Lunas Campos died, said he saw at least five guards struggling with Lunas Campos after he refused to enter the segregation unit, complaining that he didn’t have his medications. Flores said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, “No puedo respirar” — Spanish for “I can’t breathe.” Medical staff tried to resuscitate him for an hour, after which they took his body away, Flores said.

“He said, ‘I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe.’ After that, we don’t hear his voice anymore and that’s it,” said Flores, who had contacted a family member of Lunas Campos, who in turn put him in touch with a Post reporter. The Post confirmed Flores was in Camp East Montana through ICE’s detainee locator.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
NEW: We @immcouncil.org just published a big new report on the growth of ICE detention in Trump's first year back in office. Not only do we track the rising scale of the detention infrastructure, we explain how changing enforcement tactics have shifted the profile of who is locked up by ICE.
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Immigration Detention Expansion in Trump’s Second Term - American Immigration Council
Executive Summary When President Trump took office in January 2025, there were roughly 40,000 people being held in immigration detention. By the start of December, that number had risen by almost 75 p...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
“Union contracts are not subject to this unilateral federal wage cut, so the workers at Wafler farm will now make thousands of dollars more each year than they would have without a UFW contract.“ documentedny.com/2026/01/13/m...
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Migrant Workers Win Farm Union Contract, Protecting Them From H-2A Visa Wage Cuts - Documented
Wafler Farms, an apple orchard in upstate New York, had spent years fighting the United Farm Workers' attempt to unionize.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/01/2026
my immediate thought is they are sending vance out to eat shit for the administration
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"ICE has waged a recruitment drive drenched in war metaphors and martial imagery. The type of person sought...is someone with a fervor for guns and an eagerness to apply violence." Good work by @aselrod.bsky.social putting shooting in context of MAGA's violent ethos: www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
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Opinion | ICE's violence is no accident
Alan Elrod: The killing of a woman by an immigration enforcement officer in Minneapolis was the raw application of Trumpist authoritarianism.
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Mario Carrillo @mariocarrillo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
One of the many tragic things about Renee Good’s murder is that it happened because this administration’s hatred of immigrants and its obsession to making these raids a show to make people afraid. Her death was entirely avoidable but this administration doesn’t seem to give a shit.
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Roberta Braga @bragaroberta.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Since the U.S.’s extraction and arrest of Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, 2026, an ongoing debate has unfolded in English and Spanish in the spaces where there are few “editors,” no algorithmic feed, and no single narrative in control – on WhatsApp and Telegram public groups. ddia.org/en/tracking-...
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Tracking the Venezuela Conversation in U.S. and Venezuela WhatsApp and Telegram Groups Over the Course of 72 Hours
This article examines how discussions about Nicolás Maduro’s arrest evolved over 72 hours on WhatsApp and Telegram in the United States and Venezuela. Analyzing English- and Spanish-language messages,...
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Mario Carrillo @mariocarrillo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Who could have predicted that sending heavily armed, poorly trained federal agents into American neighborhoods could have ended like this? It's shocking yes, but not surprising sadly. Sending strength to folks in Minneapolis today.
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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
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Mario Carrillo @mariocarrillo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
As you navigate today's news, remember that all of this is very, very fucking heavy. We're navigating uncharted territory in this country and it takes a fucking toll on us, y'all. Just important to take a breath and tread lightly.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
DHS's first official statement is out, and they call the woman who was shot a domestic terrorist who they claim was trying to kill an ICE agent. As a reminder, Tricia McLaughlin's post-shooting statements have been proven to be false MULTIPLE times in the past. They are simply not trustworthy.

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio
Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking  ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism. 

An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. 

He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers. 

The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. The ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries.
 
This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement. These men and women who are simply enforcing the law on the books are facing 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats. 

This is an evolving situation, and we will give the public more information as soon as it becomes available.
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Mario Carrillo @mariocarrillo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Today we launched Borderly, a passion project of mine and a 4-part podcast series that will focus on the border and stories from the El Paso/Juarez region. Was honored to have Dr. Yolanda Chavez Leyva, oral historian at UTEP be our first guest. Hope you can listen. open.spotify.com/episode/2WF5...
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
A Senate investigation documents “brazen lawlessness” by ICE and CBP, including rejecting proof of U.S. citizenship, using excessive force, and fabricating charges. As @tusk81.bsky.social writes, "This harassment campaign has been unsparing, even snatching up American children."
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‘Unchecked Authority’: Senate Report Details ICE and CBP’s Brazen and Unlawful Abuses Against Americans
“Kavanaugh stops” in action: Among U.S. citizens harassed or detained by mass deportation agents include a six-year-old girl despicably used as human bait in order to lure her father.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Total victory on this issue; members of Congress will again have the right to conduct surprise inspections of ICE detention centers.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Across Illinois, Massachusetts, and North Carolina, faith communities are refusing to stay silent. Churches are using their nativity scenes to call out the Trump administration’s cruel and chaotic anti-immigrant policies that are tearing families apart right now. ✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social
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‘The Holy Family Were Refugees’: Church Nativity Scenes Push Back On Trump’s Ugly Mass Deportation Agenda
“If the Holy Family had been in Charlotte two weeks ago, they would have been putting the baby Jesus in handcuffs because he wouldn’t have his papers,” said one faith leader.
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Rep. Veronica Escobar @repescobar.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🚨 Earlier today, my office was notified by a local stakeholder about the death of a detainee at Camp East Montana. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
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Guatemalan immigrant held at Camp East Montana dies
A Guatemalan immigrant has died in the Camp East Montana immigration detention facility.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
From Seattle to L.A., Chicago, and now Charlotte, communities are stepping up as Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda grows more violent and indiscriminate. "The ways that community members are helping their immigrant neighbors truly are ingenious and varied." ✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social
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Look For The Helpers: Americans Come Together To Protect Immigrant Neighbors
From buying out food vendors’ products to blowing whistles in order to warn about immigration agents, Americans are finding new and creative ways to defend immigrant communities.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"So law and order means something to [Latino voters], but not the way that it's being exercised right now.” @weareunidosus.bsky.social’s @cmartinezdc.bsky.social also explained that Latino voters feel Democrats aren’t showing progress while Republicans are offering only cruelty w/o accountability.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Immigrant entrepreneurs are powering local economies across the country. "In fact, the New American Economy’s 2019 study found that immigrant-led businesses 'employed almost 8 million American workers and generated $1.3 trillion in total sales'" ✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social
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When Immigrants Succeed, America Succeeds - America's Voice
Without the skills and entrepreneurial spirit of immigrant business owners, our national economy would be stagnant, local communities would be less vibrant, and midwesterners would be missing out on a...
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Mario Carrillo @mariocarrillo.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Don’t forget that Trump thinks his enforcement actions aren’t going far enough.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Looking at this a bit more closely, this guy won PRECISELY BECAUSE he raised the "salience" of immigration via attacking ICE raids, and this won by a sizable margin in one of the most important swing counties of all, Bucks County in Pennsylvania.
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
As @tusk81.bsky.social wrote, "During the past several weeks alone, we’ve seen mass deportation agents operate with an accelerated ruthlessness and impunity" And that was before ICE showed up at a daycare w/o a warrant. When Trump said they "haven’t gone far enough," this is exactly what he meant.
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Trump Says ICE’s Ruthless Tactics ‘Haven’t Gone Far Enough’
Trump suggests during a 60 Minutes interview that his violent and unaccountable mass deportation agenda targeting immigrants and U.S. citizens alike should go even further.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
FACT SHEET: Trump’s mass deportation machine operates with haste, deception, and violence americasvoice.org/press_releas...
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"Election 2025 delivered a clear verdict: Americans are rejecting Trump's policies that make us poorer, weaker, and less safe."

Vanessa Cárdenas
Executive Director of America’s Voice
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Mario Carrillo @mariocarrillo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Don't forget that just this past week, Trump said these raids are not going far enough.
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Mario Carrillo @mariocarrillo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“Have some of these raids gone too far?” O’Donnell asked. “No, I think they haven’t gone far enough," Trump.
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