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Sergio Perez

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Civil rights attorney fighting for a more just and fair Los Angeles. Executive Director @ The Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law https://www.centerforhumanrights.org Views are mine. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergioperez23/

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · Jun 9

In all the mess, there is a euphoria to remembering that I was born in & live in a city that has my family's back.

My parents were undocumented teenagers when they came to LA from Mexico. My mom had me at 17 in a hospital-turned-parking-lot in the San Fernando Valley.

I love you, Los Angeles.

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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 30m

It's amazing that it needs to be said, but we should listen to autistic people about autism. (And autistic people, like any other group of people, also have a range of perspectives and experiences -- this is just one!) www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: Autism is not your enemy

It isn’t the misinformation that troubles autistic people the most. It’s the subtext that the world would be better off without us.

www.latimes.com

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 41m

🗣️You can cha cha cha to this Mardis Gras, I'm the dopest female that you've heard thus far…

Happy Birthday to one of the greatest lyricists of all time, MC Lyte 🎂🎊🎉🎈

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 49m

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 1h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 4h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 10h

We turned right at Vernon and went a block east to 11th Ave to see the tallest mural in the area on Good Shepherd Manor, an apartment building. This is a stunner

10 story tall painting of a Black Madonna and child. Mostly monotone grays. Partial Circle/halo around child in warm yellow/orange/red/gold. The halo glows

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve lived in Hermosa in Chicago nearly my entire life. It’s an 80+% Latino community. There are no words for what we’re experiencing right now. I can’t stress this enough—

My home, my people are being psychologically terrorized
People are going missing
People are terrified

Don’t forget about us.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 10h

Pardon the typos. It is 2025 and we should have an edit button.

Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 10h

So just realize: when you are saying ABOLISH ICE, you are also saying these TACTICS have no place in a sane & just & good community.

Look around. Look at your local PD. Look at how they treat brown & black & unhoused folks.

Is your fight only with ICE?

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 10h

Given the chance, we’ll want to wipe the slate clean on racist conceptions of “public safety.”

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 10h

What we are living through is a nationalization of biased policing, in your face & on your social media & on tv and what have you.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 10h

I get it, ICE is doing insane things.

Some pretend that state & local police haven’t subjected brown & black folk to same pain for time immemorial.

BUT:

Furtive glances and/or particula skin or bumper stickers or cultural affiliation have been enough to nullify the 4th amendment for a long time.

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 11h

while you are in the process of bunting, you should lose all protections and rights. you are acting shamefully and all crime should become legal out there on the ballfield in order to deal with you

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 15h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 13h

…and a kindergartner who still sleeps twelve hours every night.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“There’s been times where I have sat back in my house and really wondered how I was going to feed my family,” said one single mom of three. She warns that there’s “going to be pregnant women skipping meals so that they can feed their toddlers”: www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

Guy in private plane doesn’t like that he has to hire more security to address his personal concerns about crime so he is happy to have the president push guardsmen into the city at taxpayer expense.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 16h

When this is all over, we’re going to need a plaque OR SOMETHING to memorialize good folks like this neighbor.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 20h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 16h

But, the intense push to ramp up deportations is dragging in even the dead, as it unnerves immigrant households, crams court calendars and saps stretched immigration attorneys.
www.latimes.com/california/...

Immigration sought to deport 88-year-old. But he already died

The Department of Homeland Security's intense push to ramp up deportations is dragging in even the dead as it unnerves immigrant households and crams court calendars.

www.latimes.com

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 16h

The Department of Homeland Security has been aggressively seeking to deport unauthorized immigrants, scanning records for expired visas and reviving cases once administratively closed for deportation, sometimes decades ago. www.latimes.com/california/...

Immigration sought to deport 88-year-old. But he already died

The Department of Homeland Security's intense push to ramp up deportations is dragging in even the dead as it unnerves immigrant households and crams court calendars.

www.latimes.com

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 16h

It has been a week.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Three @wsj.com headlines from the past three days. 👀

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

One more thing: people are homeless because they have been deprived of housing.

You solve homelessness with homes.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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