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Maurizio Guerrero

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Journalist, New York. Immigration. @prismreports.org‬ @inthesetimes.com‬ @documentedny.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social mauriziogro-at-yahoo-dot-com Previous work at X: @mauriziogro

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Maurizio Guerrero @mauriziogro.bsky.social · 14d

This is a bilingual review of my book *Un Nahual en el Imperio*, written by Ernesto Castañeda, director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University. It's an honor for me. It also includes a translated excerpt! @drernestocast.bsky.social aulablog.net/2025/09/18/a...

A Mexican Indigenous Entrepreneur in New York

By Ernesto Castañeda [see Spanish version below] Book review and excerpt from. “Un nahual en el imperio: La lucha de un migrante por los derechos políticos de la diáspora [A nahual in the empire: T…

Maurizio Guerrero @mauriziogro.bsky.social · 15d

Mi libro, Un Nahual en el Imperio, ya está a la venta!! Aborda la vida del empresario poblano mixteco Jaime Lucero y el esfuerzo que amplió la representación de los migrantes en el Congreso en México. granodesal.com/978970966652... @tomasgranadoss.bsky.social @granodesal.bsky.social

Un nahual en el imperio - Grano de Sal

La lucha de un migrante por los derechos políticos de la diáspora Maurizio Guerrero Antes de cumplir diez años, Jaime Lucero se vio forzado a abandonar Independencia, una ranchería enclavada en la Mix...

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Prism @prismreports.org · 26d

“The attack on immigrants is about giving the police & federal agencies the license to determine what is illegal & what is illegality & to decide who gets to be an American.”

Trump is now targeting green card holders, leaving immigrants fearful of traveling abroad, @mauriziogro.bsky.social reports.

Under Trump, the criminal legal system now targets green-card holders

While there is little public data about the number of lawful permanent residents targeted at ports of entry, an uptick in reports has immigrants fearful of traveling

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Prism @prismreports.org · 29d

Under Trump, the criminal legal system now targets another population: Green card holders. While there is little public data about the number of lawful permanent residents targeted at ports of entry, an uptick in reports leaves many fearful of traveling abroad, @mauriziogro.bsky.social reports.

Under Trump, the criminal legal system now targets green-card holders

While there is little public data about the number of lawful permanent residents targeted at ports of entry, an uptick in reports has immigrants fearful of traveling

prismreports.org

Maurizio Guerrero @mauriziogro.bsky.social · 29d

A racist criminal system is now being leveraged at ports of entry to arbitrarily harass and detain noncitizens, including lawful permanent residents and green card holders, advocates warn. @vera.org @nlgnews.bsky.social @immcouncil.org @nipnlg.bsky.social prismreports.org/2025/09/09/u...

Under Trump, the criminal legal system now targets green-card holders

While there is little public data about the number of lawful permanent residents targeted at ports of entry, an uptick in reports has immigrants fearful of traveling

prismreports.org

Maurizio Guerrero @mauriziogro.bsky.social · Aug 6

Visitors at immigrants' detention camp Delaney Hall are forced by the private prison corporation GEO Group to wait from seven to 12 hours to see family or friends, despite the life-threatening heat. Still, they sometimes cannot enter. @cosecha.bsky.social documentedny.com/2025/08/06/p...

Prison Corporation Forces Visitors to Delaney Hall to Wait 7 Hours in Life-Threatening Heat

Documented spoke to nearly a dozen visitors at Delaney Hall, all of whom had to wait from seven to 12 hours to see family or friends detained in the last two months.

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Maurizio Guerrero @mauriziogro.bsky.social · Jul 29

Google partners with the Israeli military as it conducts a genocide in Gaza. Now, the company is bolstering the United Arab Emirates’ AI ambitions, despite widespread accusations that the UAE is involved in a genocide in Sudan. prismreports.org/2025/07/28/g... @notechforapartheid.bsky.social

Google Cloud supports AI ambitions of UAE, accused of fueling Sudan genocide

The United Arab Emirates has been accused of arming the paramilitary group denounced for committing genocide in Darfur

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Jul 28

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Prism @prismreports.org · Jul 28

“Google Cloud doesn’t seem to have any qualms about providing AI technology in service of human rights violations and in service of war and genocide,” —Alia El-Assar, director of media organizing @adalahjustice.bsky.social

@mauriziogro.bsky.social reports here: prismreports.org/2025/07/28/g...

Google Cloud supports AI ambitions of UAE, accused of fueling Sudan genocide

The United Arab Emirates has been accused of arming the paramilitary group denounced for committing genocide in Darfur

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Maurizio Guerrero @mauriziogro.bsky.social · Jul 10

prismreports.org/2025/07/10/s... This administration is rapidly consolidating a surveillance state with diminished privacy rights and due process, ensuring that all our sensitive information can be used against us @protectdemocracy.org ‪‬ @eff.org ‬ @cdt.org @pogo.org @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social

The growing surveillance state in the U.S. is far worse than you imagined

Through legal loopholes, executive orders, and shady contracts, the Trump administration crushes safeguards protecting against surveillance

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Prism @prismreports.org · Jul 10

The growing surveillance state in the U.S. ensures that your data can be used against you. Through court battles, legal loopholes, executive orders, & shady contracts, the Trump admin is crushing the safeguards protecting privacy rights & due process, @mauriziogro.bsky.social investigates.

The growing surveillance state in the U.S. is far worse than you imagined

Through legal loopholes, executive orders, and shady contracts, the Trump administration crushes safeguards protecting against surveillance

prismreports.org

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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · Jul 2

"[Fusion centers] were designed to create formal data sharing structures between the partner agencies, and that means having local police departments collaborating with ICE to deport their neighbors” - @foxcahn.bsky.social @documentedny.bsky.social @mauriziogro.bsky.social

ICE May Still Have Massive Access to Rikers Island Data Despite City's Sanctuary Status - Documented

Earlier this month, a judge’s decision indefinitely barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from having an office in the Rikers Island jail complex, citing that it would violate the sanctuary...

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Maurizio Guerrero @mauriziogro.bsky.social · Jul 2

documentedny.com/2025/07/02/i... Rikers Island has a Fusion Center—an intelligence-sharing hub funded by DHS, parent agency of ICE, which may have access to audio surveillance data that can track people communicating with those in Rikers. ‪@bklyndefender.bsky.social‬ @stopspyingny.bsky.social‬

ICE May Still Have Massive Access to Rikers Island Data Despite City's Sanctuary Status - Documented

Earlier this month, a judge’s decision indefinitely barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from having an office in the Rikers Island jail complex, citing that it would violate the sanctuary...

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Prism @prismreports.org · Jun 9

Alongside the use of textbook abusive tactics, ICE is swiftly expanding its sprawling surveillance apparatus, reports @mauriziogro.bsky.social. Within days of the election, ICE sought out contractors to enlarge, transform, & modernize systems to surveil noncitizens
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ICE is swiftly expanding its sprawling surveillance apparatus

After Trump’s win, ICE sought out contractors to grow the agency’s ability to track, monitor, and surveil noncitizens

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · May 6

One of the winners of the Labor Organizer of the Year Award is an Indigenous immigrant organizer who helped hundreds of immigrants fight for fair treatment in a brutal industry.

For her safety, her name can't be publicly shared.

Her story reveals the cruelty of Trump's anti-immigrant attacks.

Braving a Campaign of Terror: Unnamed

One of this year's Labor Organizer of Year awardees is anonymous. As one of the many immigrant labor leaders braving the risk of deportation, hers is a case study in how Trump is terrorizing…

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Maurizio Guerrero @mauriziogro.bsky.social · May 6

The war against immigrants IS a war on the working class. Workers too scared to assert their rights erode every worker's rights, triggering a race-to-the-bottom. Unions have a role in helping to unite folks. @32bjseiu.bsky.social @californialabor.bsky.social
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https://inthesetimes.com/article/campaign-of-terror-immigration-labor-organizer-of-the-year

Maurizio Guerrero @mauriziogro.bsky.social · Mar 21

The little we know about the 238 Venezuelans unlawfully expelled to ES speaks of the plight of the Ven diaspora—criminalized both in their home country and the US, which contributed to the collapse of Ven's economy with heavy sanctions. My piece for Documented NY:
documentedny.com/2025/03/21/v...

Criminalized by Trump, Venezuelans in the U.S. Feel Persecuted On Two Fronts

The little information that has become public about the 238 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador without due process speaks of the plight of the Venezuelan diaspora — criminalized both in their home co...

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Maurizio Guerrero @mauriziogro.bsky.social · Mar 17

This points to a future where immigrant children are stripped of rights and due process. Those with no guardians are mostly from Mex, Honduras, Guatemala—which the US has destabilized with its war on drugs and coups.
@usimmhub.bsky.social @michimmigrant.bsky.social
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Trump signals defunding legal services for unaccompanied children

On March 29, the administration will decide whether to renew legal services for unaccompanied children, after rescinding a stop-work order

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Prism @prismreports.org · Mar 17

“It’ll be a disaster for the children, & it’ll be a disaster for the courts.”

Trump signals intention to defund essential legal lifelines for unaccompanied migrant children after a leaked ICE memo outlined a plan to arrest & deport children with no legal guardian, @mauriziogro.bsky.social reports.

Trump signals defunding legal services for unaccompanied children

On March 29, the administration will decide whether to renew legal services for unaccompanied children, after rescinding a stop-work order

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Mar 13

Terrific and chilling work by @mauriziogro.bsky.social on Ice's expanding surveillance apparatus.

Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social · Feb 8

Within days of Trump’s presidential win, ICE sought out contractors to enlarge, transform, and modernize the agency’s ability to track, monitor, and surveil noncitizens @mauriziogro.bsky.social reports for @prismreports.org:

prismreports.org/2025/01/30/i...

ICE is swiftly expanding its sprawling surveillance apparatus

After Trump’s win, ICE sought out contractors to grow the agency’s ability to track, monitor, and surveil noncitizens

prismreports.org

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Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social · Feb 8

Within days of Trump’s presidential win, ICE sought out contractors to enlarge, transform, and modernize the agency’s ability to track, monitor, and surveil noncitizens @mauriziogro.bsky.social reports for @prismreports.org:

prismreports.org/2025/01/30/i...

ICE is swiftly expanding its sprawling surveillance apparatus

After Trump’s win, ICE sought out contractors to grow the agency’s ability to track, monitor, and surveil noncitizens

prismreports.org

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · Jan 31

HIGHLY recommend this piece from one of my favorite immigration reporters, @mauriziogro.bsky.social

Prism @prismreports.org · Jan 30

ICE, an agency with a long record of rights violations, torture, & abuse, now has the full support & power of the Trump admin.

Within days of Trump’s win, ICE is poised to expand the sprawling surveillance apparatus left by the Biden admin to unprecedented levels, @mauriziogro.bsky.social reports.

ICE is swiftly expanding its sprawling surveillance apparatus

After Trump’s win, ICE sought out contractors to grow the agency’s ability to track, monitor, and surveil noncitizens

prismreports.org

Maurizio Guerrero @mauriziogro.bsky.social · Jan 30

Within days of Trump’s victory, ICE posted several notices seeking contractors to provide technological tools to enlarge, transform, and modernize the agency’s capabilities to track, monitor, and surveil [email protected] @immigrantjustice.bsky.social @mediajustice.bsky.social

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Prism @prismreports.org · Jan 30

ICE, an agency with a long record of rights violations, torture, & abuse, now has the full support & power of the Trump admin.

Within days of Trump’s win, ICE is poised to expand the sprawling surveillance apparatus left by the Biden admin to unprecedented levels, @mauriziogro.bsky.social reports.

ICE is swiftly expanding its sprawling surveillance apparatus

After Trump’s win, ICE sought out contractors to grow the agency’s ability to track, monitor, and surveil noncitizens

prismreports.org

Maurizio Guerrero @mauriziogro.bsky.social · Jan 23

The Democratic establishment is already capitulating to Trump’s nativist, anti-immigrant agenda, leaving the grassroots immigrant-led organizations to fend for themselves to protect and advocate for immigrants. @emiliovicente.bsky.social
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Democrats scapegoating immigrant rights advocates, letter says

The party’s rightward shift is solidified, as some Democrats support the Laken Riley Act, which makes it easier to deport people accused of a crime

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