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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · 19d

🗓️Saturday, November 1, 2025
⏰ 12 PM - 10 PM
📍Calle Cuatro & Broadway, Santa Ana, CA

For more information, please direct questions to El Centro Cultural de México.

Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · 19d

This community-driven event honors our loved ones through altars, music, food, and culture. We thank El Centro for continuing this beautiful tradition that brings us together year after year.

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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · 19d

Join our community in celebrating Noche de Altares 2025, a cherished tradition led by El Centro Cultural de México for many, many years.

It's been a hard year for our community-please join us in the spirit of respect, reflection, and togetherness.

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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · Sep 9

Councilwoman Lopez’s statement on today’s Supreme Court decision allowing ICE to resume discriminatory raids that terrorize families and neighbors under the false guise of public safety

Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · Jun 20

Santa Ana families are in danger. ICE is targeting our community — at work, in the streets, in our parks.

Our loved ones are being taken. This is unforgivable violence.

We need to protect each other.

🔗 dailyjournal.com/article/386228…#SantaAnana

OC attorney says she was detained in ICE raid at Santa Ana park

The Daily Journal has more journalists covering the California legal profession than any other publication.

https://dailyjournal.com/article/386228…

Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · Jun 16

Our communities have the right to be safe — not targeted. When a president punishes cities because of their party affiliation, that’s not law and order, that’s political retaliation. We will not be silenced, and we will not back down.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jun 16

BREAKING: President Donald Trump directs federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities after large protests erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against his administration’s immigration policies.

Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests

President Donald Trump has directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities after large protests have erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · Jun 15

It’s one of his favorite things—browsing old movies, searching for cassette tapes, getting his watch battery replaced, or just being out there.

But yesterday, I asked him not to go.
Because they’ve taken even our simplest, safest places.

Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · Jun 15

Happy Father’s Day, Pa.
Happy Birthday, Ma.

On any other day, I wouldn’t think twice about my dad heading to the swap meet.

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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · Jun 13

I have a quick update about the past four days.

We want ICE out of our CITY NOW. WE WILL NOT STOP UNTIL THEY’RE GONE.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjGR2VJF/

Day four of the National guard being in our city. Stay safe Santaneros! I will provide an update in Spanish tomorrow. #ICEOUTOFCA #ICEOUTOFOC

TikTok video by Jessie Lopez

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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thank you!

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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · Jun 12

No businesses were looted. Graffiti was cleaned up immediately. All on-the-ground reports confirm the protests were peaceful. I will not stand by while young people in my city are criminalized for rightfully expressing their anger and sense of betrayal by this country.

Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · Jun 12

And I call on my colleagues - who like to point fingers - to set aside personal egos and recommit to our shared responsibility: protecting our residents, standing up for civil liberties, and doing the real work of keeping families together.

#SantaAna

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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · Jun 12

I showed up to express my concern about the federal government’s overreach & to defend the rights of my community.

I invite the mayor to reach out if she has genuine questions or wants to better understand what’s happening in our neighborhoods.

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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · Jun 12

I was proud to stand alongside my constituents—peacefully, lawfully, and unapologetically—exercising my First Amendment right to protest a growing militarized presence in our city.

I showed up to make sure people were safe… 1/1🧵

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Chris Hecht ❌👑 @checht.bsky.social · Jun 11

Great TikTok by Santa Ana city council member @votejessielopez.bsky.social about what you can do to get involved and be safe. “This really is the fight of our lives if we are going to allow this dictatorship to prevail or not” www.tiktok.com/@votejessiel...

Stay safe Santa Ana!! Please contact our office if you need anything.

TikTok video by Jessie Lopez

www.tiktok.com

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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · Jun 8

ICE is tearing families apart. No due process. No justice. Just fear.

📢 Know your rights. Protect each other. Show up.

#OrangeCounty #EducationFirst #GoldenCity #SantaAnaResiste #KnowYourRights

Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · Jun 7

I stand in solidarity w/SEIU & demand the immediate release of President David Huerta, who was detained and injured while serving as a peaceful community observer. His courage reflects the very best of our movement.

We will not allow this administration’s cruelty to go unchecked.

SEIU California @seiuca.org · Jun 6

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing.

ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.

seiuca.org/press-releas...

SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles

We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…

seiuca.org

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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · Jun 3

🌸 May was a BIG month — and our newsletter proves it! From 25 years of impact at Santa Ana College’s Teacher Ed Center to opening supportive housing at WISEPlace, we’ve been working hard for Santa Ana.

Tap in for community wins, events & resources👇
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · May 15

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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · May 6

Our city should be protecting immigrant and refugee communities, not quietly working with agencies that cause harm.

We owe our immigrant communities more than lies, silence, and indifference.

We owe them action.

Full article: inadvertent.substack.com/p/sapd-ice-data

EXCLUSIVE: Santa Ana Police Department Received Forty-Two Alerts From Immigration Agents And Did Not Tell The Community

SAPD withheld information about ICE/DHS targeting Santa Ana neighborhoods. New map tool brings transparency to immigration agents' activity in Santa Ana.

inadvertent.substack.com

Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · May 2

I’m proud to stand with UPTE, AFSCME 3299, the OC Labor Federation, and all the workers rising up to reclaim their voice.

Because when workers rise, we all win.

#MayDay #WorkersRising #InternationalWorkersDay
#SantaAna #TeamJLO #EstamosEnLaLucha #AD68

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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · May 2

On this May Day, we’re not just marching for dignity and respect.
We’re demanding fair pay, safe working conditions, and a future where working families can thrive—and afford to live—right here in Orange County.

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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · May 2

Today, I marched again—this time not as a kid cutting class,
but as a public servant, a daughter of working-class parents, and a worker myself.

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Jessie Lopez @votejessielopez.bsky.social · May 2

But even as she snatched me up, she knew I was learning something powerful: The importance of standing up for our community.

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