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Rocío Sáenz

@seiusaenz.bsky.social

Secretary Treasurer of Service Employees International Union, Fighting for immigration reform and workers rights

874 Followers  |  99 Following  |  152 Posts  |  Joined: 15.11.2024  |  1.9404

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DACA recipient to be deported after missing last San Diego exit into Mexico, attorney says A DACA recipient is about to be deported after missing his exit on the freeway in San Ysidro and accidentally crossing the border into Mexico, his attorney said.

An immigration system that deports a father after something as minor as missing a freeway exit is a system that is clearly broken. It’s time to focus on real solutions that provide a path to citizenship and put an end to these injustices. www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/d...

02.08.2025 16:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A new poll found that 78% of Americans, from across the political spectrum, support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. #EndRaids

01.08.2025 23:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Honored to be in amazing company with Latina leaders at the @LCLAA convention—a space to reaffirm our shared commitment to building a future that’s resilient, united, and unstoppable. United we stand!

01.08.2025 18:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We’re outside the SF courthouse today in solidarity with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders from Venezuela & Haiti. But this isn’t just about one country—it’s about every community Trump has targeted, tearing families apart and stripping workers of protection. #TPSjustice #WeMakeAmericaWork

01.08.2025 17:14 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s immigration policy shakes up the elder care sector: ‘Losing these caregivers is a profound blow’ In Florida, where immigrants make up 40% to 75% of senior care workers, the president’s campaign of mass deportations has led to a labor shortage

Americans will pay the price of the Trump administration’s decision to strip work permits from immigrant workers— especially in the care industry, where families and seniors count on us every day. #WeMakeAmericaWork
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01.08.2025 16:14 — 👍 15    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 2
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Federal judge delays expiration of TPS for Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Nepalese The Trump administration has said the conditions in the three countries have improved, therefore the immigrants can return back to their homelands. But federal Judge Trina Thompson suggested Trump's m...

The court ruling delaying Trump’s attempt to end Temporary Protected Status for Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal is a win. TPS has allowed people already here to work, care for their families, and strengthen our communities and our nation’s economy. www.npr.org/2025/07/31/n...

01.08.2025 13:41 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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“In a world darkened by war and injustice, even when all seems lost, migrants and refugees stand as messengers of hope." -Pope Leo
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

31.07.2025 23:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s deportation agenda will destroy millions of jobs: Both immigrants and U.S.-born workers would suffer job losses, particularly in construction and child care Deportations will eliminate millions of jobs held by immigrant and U.S.-born workers according to research on increased immigration enforcement.

Deporting millions of people could cost the U.S. nearly 6 million jobs. It would hurt both immigrants and U.S.-born workers, especially in construction and child care. #WeMakeAmericaWork
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31.07.2025 16:14 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Doctors are seeing up close what happens when their colleagues lose work permits. It doesn’t just hurt their families, it puts patient care at risk too. We stand with @cirseiu and @TPS_Alliance in calling out the real harm of this administration ending work permits.

30.07.2025 23:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨 TPS is under attack — again. TODAY, July 29, A federal court hearing in San Francisco will determine whether thousands of people from Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua lose their legal protection and face deportation.

29.07.2025 17:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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On Saturday @seiu.org members across 41 states, our communities and our families took to the streets to push back against Trump's budget that cuts taxes for billionaires, and cuts healthcare for the rest of us.

We're fighting to put #FamiliesFirst, and we're not backing down.

29.07.2025 12:44 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1
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Over 500,000 immigrants lost work authorization, squeezing ag sector and likely driving up food prices - Investigate Midwest A new study projects that recent and proposed immigration policies could raise food, beverage, and tobacco prices by 14.5% between 2024 and 2028 — adding to current inflation.

Stripping immigrant workers of work authorization could raise food and beverage prices up 14.5% over time, a new study shows.
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27.07.2025 18:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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HAPPENING NOW: Families, SEIU members, and community leaders from all 50 states are holding a day of action today to say: #FamiliesFirst,
NOT billionaire. NOT corporations. NOT ICE.

26.07.2025 18:01 — 👍 45    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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We’re working to build a future where every family has care, safety, and dignity. #FamiliesFirst #SolidaritySummer

26.07.2025 18:07 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump wants us divided while billionaires steal trillions. We won’t fall for it. We see what’s happening—and we say NO. #FamiliesFirst #SolidaritySummer

26.07.2025 18:15 — 👍 42    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0
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We are calling out billionaires like Antonio Gracias, who have gained their wealth off our backs and now want to gut our Social Security and get richer by detaining immigrants.
✅ #FamiliesFirst ❌ Not Billionaires

26.07.2025 18:41 — 👍 93    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 1
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This is more than a protest, it's a declaration of the future we believe in! A nation where every family—no matter the color of our skin or where we were born—can stay together, safe, and live with dignity. #FamiliesFirst #SolidaritySummer

26.07.2025 19:16 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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TPS immigrants were supposedly protected, but Trump came for them anyway In the 19 years my uncle has worked in the healthcare industry, he’s only missed one day—the day his mother, my grandmother, passed away. He would then help plan a funeral he couldn’t attend. If you…

Emily’s uncle is a hardworking, taxpaying Utah resident who’s lived here 20yrs w/ Temporary Protected Status—renewing it every year and paying fees. Everyone contributing to our communities deserves the stability of a permanent solution. #WeMakeAmericaWork
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26.07.2025 17:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Working people want affordable eggs-- not family separations and deportations.
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25.07.2025 19:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This Saturday, July 26, we put Families First! Not ICE. Not billionaires. We rally to defend our families, protect our neighbors, and fight for a future where ALL our families thrive.

seiu.co/FamFirst #FamiliesFirst #SolidaritySummer

25.07.2025 01:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Rümeysa Öztürk, @seiu509.bsky.social union sibling, shares for the first time, the trauma of ICE detention, the friendships made for survival, and the cruel injustices of the U.S. immigration system.
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24.07.2025 22:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) NEW from me and @immcouncil.org. Are migrants responsible for the fentanyl crisis? We analyzed CBP data on fentanyl seizures and find NO LINK between the two. Our new fact sheet explains how fentanyl…

Immigrants come to the U.S. to build safer, better lives--not cause trouble. Enough with the scapegoating, it solves nothing and helps no one.
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20.07.2025 22:30 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Judge orders Trump administration to stop racial profiling in California immigration raids A California judge said it was likely that the Trump administration broke the law by arresting people 'without reasonable suspicion.'

Racial profiling is illegal-- period. The fact that a judge has to remind the Trump administration this shows just how deep their discrimination runs. But we're fighting back, in the courts and peacefully in the streets.
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19.07.2025 21:38 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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More immigration judges are being fired amid Trump's efforts to speed up deportations Several more immigration judges have been fired, even as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement, and after Congress gave the Department of Justice $3 billion, in part to hire…

Trump is firing more immigration judges to deny fair hearings and hit his deportation quotas. We need more judges to uphold justice, not fewer to speed up cruelty. www.npr.org/2025/07/14/n...

18.07.2025 15:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Good Trouble Lives On On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities across the country will take to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice,…

Our union is built on solidarity, and on July 17, we’re taking action against attacks on our healthcare, immigrant communities, and constitutional rights. Join us! goodtroubleliveson.org #GoodTroubleLivesOn

17.07.2025 00:15 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We rallied outside court today as judges heard a challenge to Trump’s attempt to end TPS for Venezuela.

But this isn’t just about one country—it’s a fight to protect all immigrant workers.

@seiu721.bsky.social @32bjseiu.bsky.social @haitianbridge.bsky.social #TPSjustice

16.07.2025 22:33 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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We will not allow the Trump regime to strip Black and brown workers of deportation protection and work permits without a fight! @seiu721.bsky.social @seiuusww @32bjseiu.bsky.social members are outside the oral hearing to defend Temporary Protected Status. #WeMakeAmericaWork #TPSjustice

16.07.2025 21:55 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

We are relieved that Dr. Jonathan Caravello—a U.S. citizen and @cfaunited.bsky.social member— has been released after being unjustly detained. No one, U.S. citizen or not, should ever face violence from federal officials or endure unlawful detention. We will not back down.

15.07.2025 16:16 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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JUDGE ORDERS PROFESSOR JOHN CARAVELLO TO BE RELEASED! ✊🏾

CFA member John Caravello was assaulted and arrested while asserting his first amendment rights. #FreethemALL

14.07.2025 22:57 — 👍 986    🔁 210    💬 7    📌 7

This nation has failed the Forero family and every American in their community who were relying on their childcare, whose children played with theirs, and every child now without Nicolle’s loving care. We must do better to protect immigrant workers. We’re not done fighting.

14.07.2025 14:49 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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