Rocío Sáenz
@seiusaenz.bsky.social
Secretary Treasurer of Service Employees International Union, Fighting for immigration reform and workers rights
"In Minneapolis, they started with immigrants and Somali families. Then, they targeted protesters... Eventually, it will be anyone and everyone who dares to resist." -Kica Matos, @nilc.org president
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Minnesota and the Threat of American Authoritarianism
"This fight is not just about protecting immigrants—it is about protecting American democracy," writes Kica Matos.
time.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:15 PM
"In Minneapolis, they started with immigrants and Somali families. Then, they targeted protesters... Eventually, it will be anyone and everyone who dares to resist." -Kica Matos, @nilc.org president
time.com/7362221/minn...
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ICE’s actions harm every one of us. Its presence spreads fear, keeps working people from showing up to their jobs or running daily errands, and drives down wages for all Americans.
And that is why we cannot ignore it and refuse to look away. #ICEout
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And that is why we cannot ignore it and refuse to look away. #ICEout
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Why Labor Unions Can’t Ignore ICE
From agriculture to meatpacking to service work, immigration enforcement functions as labor discipline. Minnesota’s mass strike against ICE points toward a reckoning with the agency that the labor…
jacobin.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:28 PM
ICE’s actions harm every one of us. Its presence spreads fear, keeps working people from showing up to their jobs or running daily errands, and drives down wages for all Americans.
And that is why we cannot ignore it and refuse to look away. #ICEout
jacobin.com/2026/01/minn...
And that is why we cannot ignore it and refuse to look away. #ICEout
jacobin.com/2026/01/minn...
If Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders.
Our call to action is simple:
📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp
bit.ly/deletetheapp
Our call to action is simple:
📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp
bit.ly/deletetheapp
February 4, 2026 at 5:40 PM
A century of Black history reminds us that today’s fights for fair wages, worker protections, and equity were won through generations of organizing and resistance.
Now, as those gains are threatened, we carry that collective power forward. #BlackHistoryMonth
Now, as those gains are threatened, we carry that collective power forward. #BlackHistoryMonth
February 4, 2026 at 2:30 PM
A century of Black history reminds us that today’s fights for fair wages, worker protections, and equity were won through generations of organizing and resistance.
Now, as those gains are threatened, we carry that collective power forward. #BlackHistoryMonth
Now, as those gains are threatened, we carry that collective power forward. #BlackHistoryMonth
Maria, a @seiu503.bsky.social member, was doing what millions of us do every day—paying rent & picking up a birthday cake for someone she loves.
No one, no matter our immigration status, should be harmed by immigration agents for going about our daily life.
www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
No one, no matter our immigration status, should be harmed by immigration agents for going about our daily life.
www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter
A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the…
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February 3, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Maria, a @seiu503.bsky.social member, was doing what millions of us do every day—paying rent & picking up a birthday cake for someone she loves.
No one, no matter our immigration status, should be harmed by immigration agents for going about our daily life.
www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
No one, no matter our immigration status, should be harmed by immigration agents for going about our daily life.
www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
When we fight, we win! 👏
#TPSjustice
#TPSjustice
A federal judge just blocked the end of TPS for Haitians the day before it was set to expire, protecting nearly 350,000 workers and families.
The ruling keeps Haitian workers on the job, with their loved ones, and reinforcing what we’ve always known: immigrant workers are essential. ✊🇭🇹
The ruling keeps Haitian workers on the job, with their loved ones, and reinforcing what we’ve always known: immigrant workers are essential. ✊🇭🇹
February 3, 2026 at 8:23 PM
When we fight, we win! 👏
#TPSjustice
#TPSjustice
Reposted by Rocío Sáenz
Our historic new contract at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Enumclaw is official – nurses overwhelmingly voted YES to ratify! Our new contract will support recruitment at retention at our critical access hospital, keep ourselves and our patients safe, and expand access to education.
February 2, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Our historic new contract at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Enumclaw is official – nurses overwhelmingly voted YES to ratify! Our new contract will support recruitment at retention at our critical access hospital, keep ourselves and our patients safe, and expand access to education.
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BREAKING: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending TPS for Haiti. This means that 350,000 Haitians can keep working, contributing, & remain with their families in the US for now. A big win, but the fight for permanent protections isn’t over. amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Federal judge blocks termination of Haitian TPS, keeps protections from ending Tuesday
“The district court judge stayed the termination of TPS and plainly stated that the government may not remove or deport Haitians with TPS and may take no action to remove their employment authorizatio...
amp.miamiherald.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:23 AM
BREAKING: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending TPS for Haiti. This means that 350,000 Haitians can keep working, contributing, & remain with their families in the US for now. A big win, but the fight for permanent protections isn’t over. amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Two days until Temporary Protected Status for Haiti expires! For "Jerome" and countless families who’ve built their lives here, this means losing income and possible family separation. Over 260,000 U.S. citizen children live with TPS holders.
Take action! Call Congress: 1-888-204-8329 #TPSjustice
Take action! Call Congress: 1-888-204-8329 #TPSjustice
February 2, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Two days until Temporary Protected Status for Haiti expires! For "Jerome" and countless families who’ve built their lives here, this means losing income and possible family separation. Over 260,000 U.S. citizen children live with TPS holders.
Take action! Call Congress: 1-888-204-8329 #TPSjustice
Take action! Call Congress: 1-888-204-8329 #TPSjustice
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🚨No more funding for ICE! Soon, your senators will vote on a bill that would increase funding for DHS, the very agency responsible for this deadly deportation agenda & for seemingly refusing to hold its agents accountable for abuse.
Tell your senators to vote NO: iAmerica.org/emailsenators
Tell your senators to vote NO: iAmerica.org/emailsenators
Email your senators: No more funding for ICE
Any day now, your senators will vote on a bill that would increase funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the very agency responsible for this deadly deportation agenda and for…
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January 27, 2026 at 10:09 PM
🚨No more funding for ICE! Soon, your senators will vote on a bill that would increase funding for DHS, the very agency responsible for this deadly deportation agenda & for seemingly refusing to hold its agents accountable for abuse.
Tell your senators to vote NO: iAmerica.org/emailsenators
Tell your senators to vote NO: iAmerica.org/emailsenators
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🚨¡No más fondos para ICE! Uno de estos días en esta semana, sus senadores votarán sobre un proyecto de ley que aumentaría la financiación del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS). Diles a tus senadores que voten NO. Envíe un correo electrónico: act.seiu.org/a/email-your...
Envía un correo electrónico a tus senadores: No más fondos para ICE
Uno de estos días en esta semana, sus senadores votarán sobre un proyecto de ley que aumentaría la financiación del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS). Diles a tus senadores que voten NO.
act.seiu.org
January 28, 2026 at 4:29 PM
🚨¡No más fondos para ICE! Uno de estos días en esta semana, sus senadores votarán sobre un proyecto de ley que aumentaría la financiación del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS). Diles a tus senadores que voten NO. Envíe un correo electrónico: act.seiu.org/a/email-your...
Congress must step up for immigrant workers. If not for us — working people — then for hospital patients, our aging loved ones in care homes, and everyone who depends on us.
In 12 days, Haitians with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) could be forced out of work and stripped of protections. They are essential workers in health care, education & more. Our economy depends on them. @mass.1199seiu.org's Gertrude Joseph explains what this means for all of us. #TPSjustice
January 26, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Congress must step up for immigrant workers. If not for us — working people — then for hospital patients, our aging loved ones in care homes, and everyone who depends on us.
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Heartbroken & angry. As Minnesotans continue to peacefully stand up as families getting torn apart, ANOTHER Minnesotan was stolen from us today by ICE agents. Alex was a union member, a nurse & loved by many. We're sending ❤️ to all who knew & loved him. This has to stop. #ICEOutOfMN
The man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family says
Family members say the man who was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by Pr...
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January 24, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Heartbroken & angry. As Minnesotans continue to peacefully stand up as families getting torn apart, ANOTHER Minnesotan was stolen from us today by ICE agents. Alex was a union member, a nurse & loved by many. We're sending ❤️ to all who knew & loved him. This has to stop. #ICEOutOfMN
Asked what he’ll do when his Temporary Protected Status (TPS) expires next month:
“I don't know, I don't know... Because I have mortgage, I have car loan … and my children in college.”
#TPSjustice #WeMakeAmericaWork
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“I don't know, I don't know... Because I have mortgage, I have car loan … and my children in college.”
#TPSjustice #WeMakeAmericaWork
ttps://www.wbur.org/news/2026/01/21/congress-haitians-pressley-boston-tps-trump
January 26, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Asked what he’ll do when his Temporary Protected Status (TPS) expires next month:
“I don't know, I don't know... Because I have mortgage, I have car loan … and my children in college.”
#TPSjustice #WeMakeAmericaWork
ttps://www.wbur.org/news/2026/01/21/congress-haitians-pressley-boston-tps-trump
“I don't know, I don't know... Because I have mortgage, I have car loan … and my children in college.”
#TPSjustice #WeMakeAmericaWork
ttps://www.wbur.org/news/2026/01/21/congress-haitians-pressley-boston-tps-trump
“When we look at Minneapolis – the violence, the cruelty that’s being brought by this federal government against working people – it is now more than ever that we have to stand together, regardless of our differences.” @davidhuerta-seiu.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘We have to stand together’: Minnesota economic blackout organizers push to take demonstrations nationwide
Minnesotans urged not to work, shop or go to school as part of protests against ICE and the death of Renee Nicole Good
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:45 PM
“When we look at Minneapolis – the violence, the cruelty that’s being brought by this federal government against working people – it is now more than ever that we have to stand together, regardless of our differences.” @davidhuerta-seiu.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Don’t look away. Look at his little hat. Look at that backpack half his size.
El pequeño Liam is a child who is loved and should be with his parents at home. This cannot continue in our name.
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El pequeño Liam is a child who is loved and should be with his parents at home. This cannot continue in our name.
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January 24, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Don’t look away. Look at his little hat. Look at that backpack half his size.
El pequeño Liam is a child who is loved and should be with his parents at home. This cannot continue in our name.
abcnews.go.com/US/5-year-as...
El pequeño Liam is a child who is loved and should be with his parents at home. This cannot continue in our name.
abcnews.go.com/US/5-year-as...
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Reposted by Rocío Sáenz
People showed up today in Portland to say loud and clear: ICE does not belong in our workplaces. Union members and community allies took action at Target to demand 4th Amendment workplaces—where workers are protected, unlawful entry is denied, and dignity on the job is non-negotiable. #ICEout
January 23, 2026 at 9:22 PM
People showed up today in Portland to say loud and clear: ICE does not belong in our workplaces. Union members and community allies took action at Target to demand 4th Amendment workplaces—where workers are protected, unlawful entry is denied, and dignity on the job is non-negotiable. #ICEout
Honored to be at the AFL Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference and to meet Rev. Mark Thompson along with panelist, former Maryland State Senator Michael Mitchell.
Grateful for the conversations and the legacy being carried forward. ✊🏾✨
#MLK2026
Grateful for the conversations and the legacy being carried forward. ✊🏾✨
#MLK2026
January 16, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Honored to be at the AFL Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference and to meet Rev. Mark Thompson along with panelist, former Maryland State Senator Michael Mitchell.
Grateful for the conversations and the legacy being carried forward. ✊🏾✨
#MLK2026
Grateful for the conversations and the legacy being carried forward. ✊🏾✨
#MLK2026
Our hearts go out to the families and union siblings of two SEIU Local 1989 workers who lost their lives on the job. Every worker deserves to return home safely at the end of the day. We honor them by committing ourselves to the fight for safer workplaces.
January 14, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Our hearts go out to the families and union siblings of two SEIU Local 1989 workers who lost their lives on the job. Every worker deserves to return home safely at the end of the day. We honor them by committing ourselves to the fight for safer workplaces.
These high school teens raised money to help their classmates whose parents were detained by ICE. We keep fighting because our future is too bright to stop! www.wbez.org/education/20...
Meet the teens raising money to help classmates with parents in immigration detention
The DREAM Team at Solorio High School on the Southwest Side has collected more than $6,000 for their classmates. The student club has historically worked on college access but expanded its focus to…
www.wbez.org
January 12, 2026 at 9:49 PM
These high school teens raised money to help their classmates whose parents were detained by ICE. We keep fighting because our future is too bright to stop! www.wbez.org/education/20...
"Immigration has woven itself so tightly through the country’s fabric—in classrooms and hospital wards, city parks and concert halls, corporate boardrooms and factory floors—that walling off the country now will profoundly alter daily life for millions of Americans." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...
What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration
The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the foreign-born population are being felt in hospitals and soccer leagues and on Main Streets across the country, with hints of what’s to come.
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
"Immigration has woven itself so tightly through the country’s fabric—in classrooms and hospital wards, city parks and concert halls, corporate boardrooms and factory floors—that walling off the country now will profoundly alter daily life for millions of Americans." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...
Our Haitian coworkers and family members are vital to our everyday lives. Forcing them back to a country our own State Dept calls unsafe is cruel and will harm families, workplaces, and the economy. We demand permanent protections now! #TPSjustice www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Our Haitian coworkers and family members are vital to our everyday lives. Forcing them back to a country our own State Dept calls unsafe is cruel and will harm families, workplaces, and the economy. We demand permanent protections now! #TPSjustice www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...