Murad Awawdeh

@heyitsmurad.bsky.social from the @thenyic.bsky.social speaks at the New Yorkers Against ICE rally.

@heyitsmurad.bsky.social from the @thenyic.bsky.social speaks at the New Yorkers Against ICE rally.

"What matters is leadership in this moment, and having a leader who's willing and ready to fight back. That's what Zohran is willing to do." - @heyitsmurad.bsky.social, President and CEO of NYIC Action

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 ACS President Closing Remarks – 2:00 p.m. Then They Came for Me: Protecting Our Neighbors and Ourselves – 2:05 p.m. The pace of executive orders and changes to immigration policies has been much faster and broader in the second Trump administration than during the first, pushing the limits of the law even further. Immigrants are on the front lines of attacks on free speech, due process, and worker protections, which threaten liberty for everyone in the U.S. Across the country, we are facing a choice between cooperation and resistance, which will affect the rights of immigrants and citizens alike. What does the current legal landscape look like? How are we working to protect our neighbors and ourselves, in the courts, states, cities, and in workplaces, schools, and the streets? With photo icons of each panelist following

Immigrants are on the front lines of attacks on free speech, due process, & worker protections. What is the legal landscape? How do we protect our neighbors and ourselves? Join us for a timely discussion feat. @aurabogado.bsky.social, @heyitsmurad.bsky.social, Alina Das, Cecilia Wang, & @atg.wa.gov.

Free Dylan No Kings Mass Protest 2025-06-14

Free Dylan No Kings Mass Protest 2025-06-14

Free Dylan No Kings Mass Protest 2025-06-14

Free Dylan No Kings Mass Protest 2025-06-14

Free Dylan ⨯ No Kings leading the march down Fifth Avenue in the rain!

@thenyic.bsky.social & partners demand the immediate release of our public school students, so they may return to their families & school communities.

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Like @heyitsmurad.bsky.social said this morning:

This administration is not just dusting off Trump’s old anti-immigrant playbook—they’re escalating it.

More cruelty. More fear. More inhumanity.

We’re rallying to say: Not on our watch.👀

Mayor Baraka: I went there just to get these people to follow the laws...I didn't go down there to protest. I went down there to support my congressional delegation. They turned it into a melee and and mayhem and arrested me. @rasjbaraka.bsky.social

Now @heyitsmurad.bsky.social from the @thenyic.bsky.social explains how the mayor is failing to protect New Yorkers as our community members are getting snatched up by ICE. This is unacceptable. No ICE on Rikers, Shut Down Rikers!

The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today.

This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.

Come for one, face us all!

#FreeMahmoud #FreeMomodou #FreeRumeysa #FreeBadar #FreeLeeqa

Backing sanctuary NYC, even if the mayor won’t The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s hearing this morning on sanctuary cities is nothing more than an attempt to vilify immigrants and further a political agenda of fear and divisi…

Strong words from some of New York's biggest defenders of immigrant communities. @thenyic.bsky.social's @heyitsmurad.bsky.social is joined by three @council.nyc.gov speakers who enacted and defended critical policies over the last 15+ years to protect immigrant New Yorkers' rights.

NYC advocates condemn Mayor Adams’ stance on sanctuary policies Officials accuse the mayor of supporting Trump's deportation agenda, while Adams asserts that ICE officers have a “responsibility to carry out their job.”

“Eric Adams sent a guidance to city workers encouraging them to give away the power that the law has granted them. Encouraging ICE officers to be aggressive, to intimidate our city workers.”

@heyitsmurad.bsky.social : “It’s clear, Mayor Eric Adams does not respect our laws."
@gothamist.com #newyork

The Mayor is selling out ALL of New York.

We Protect Us!

This week:

- Hunger Advocates & lawmakers react to $340M in funding for universal school meals in Gov. Hochul's executive budget proposal
- @heyitsmurad.bsky.social of @thenyic.bsky.social: legal challenges to the federal executive orders on immigration & the role of NYS

Learn more: nynow.wmht.org

So to be clear, the Mayor of NYC is using our neighbors (who are the economic backbone of NYC) as leverage to get his charges dropped so he can participate in Trumps Mass Deportation and Family Separation campaign?

Not on our watch.

“HR. 29 will destabilize our families and communities, while devastating our economy and do nothing meaningful to keep us safe,” said @thenyic.bsky.social’s @heyitsmurad.bsky.social. “Each and every person who voted this bill into law should be ashamed.” www.nyic.org/2025/01/immi...

How Albany can stand with immigrant communities As Donald Trump prepares for a return to the White House, immigrants are bracing for his promised mass deportations and family separations to become real. Now, New York must confront the devastatin…

Important message from @thenyic.bsky.social's @heyitsmurad.bsky.social ahead of the upcoming legislative session: "Our state and local leaders are the last defense against unconstitutional and immoral federal policies."

**NEW** Today the New York Immigration Coalition launched a bold and transformative blueprint for NY: Empire State Rising! Check it out: www.nyic.org/our-work/emp...

🚨STATEMENT: Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda is a Threat to America’s Democracy and Future

"Trump isn’t just targeting immigrant communities, he’s attacking the very fabric of the country”

🔗https://www.nyic.org/2024/12/trumps-mass-deportation-agenda-is-a-threat-to-americas-democracy-and-future/

Mayor Adams says undocumented New Yorkers aren’t owed due process, defying Constitution “The Constitution is for Americans,” Adams said, contradicting amendments that grant due process to all persons regardless of immigration status.

We should be able to expect that the mayor of New York City has a basic understanding of the Constitutional rights of the people he serves…. gothamist.com/news/mayor-a...

Growth happens through challenge.

We’re all growing at different paces.

Like climbing a hill, question our choices midway, but get to the top and relish in the view.

Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

I’m rooting for us. All of us.

Will Eric Adams Defend the City From Trump’s Mass Deportation? This mayor (or the next one) faces a critical test.

Mass deportation will hit political, logistical, economic, and legal obstacles -- but Trump can do vast damage to immigrant families and communities along the way, and NYC's next mayor is morally and politically obligated to resist and repair the wreckage. My latest in @nymag

In the face of uncertainty, remember who we are: a movement built on resilience, resistance, and victory. No wall, no policy, no curelty will silence us. We fought before, we will fight again— for today, and the generations to come. Together, we rise!

Here is the real truth: immigrants are essential to America's past, present, and future.

The climate crisis is upon us. Haze from Canadian wildfires in #TimesSquare and across NYC- with air quality impacts. Stay indoors if you can.

They fled for their lives to have them taken away— where they believed they were safe. Horrific.

Using dangerous & violent rhetoric leads to dangerous & violent acts. 7 asylum seekers who made a incredible journey seeking safety & refuge were mowed down & murdered. https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/brownsville-police-investigating-major-accident/

Jordan Neely was murdered. Point blank. Murdered. Say it with me: MURDERED! The brother deserves to be alive. Any other take is trash. Bye.