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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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 1h

Unreal choice given that “Work it” is right there.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 3h

Rolling Stone crowns Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On" as the #1 GREATEST SONG OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR 👑

"It was a nonstop freak manifesto that made the musical future sound limitless."

Ranked list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 3h

mascots outside of protests: off-putting, scary. there is a grown man inside of there.

mascots at protests: cool and funny, there is a friend inside of there.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 2h

“‘They can’t go out. They are afraid to shop, to go to church and so they stay home,’ wrote Maria in one of the letters delivered to Leo.”

Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: Texas Bishop Mark Seitz just met with Pope Leo XIV and brought him a packet of letters from migrants terrorized by the Trump administration —
apnews.com/article/vati...

El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown has met with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican.

apnews.com

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 10h

This is art: youtu.be/jqmDN_NKER8?...

Les Fo’Plafonds - #1 The Simpsons (Cartoon Session)

YouTube video by Les Fo'Plafonds

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 14h

Here’s video of the incident

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 12h

Trump’s hate doesn’t come cheap and we’re all paying the price - some of us so the our wallets & others with our bodies.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Lower population growth as the president presses ahead with mass deportations will knock between 0.5 and one percentage points off America’s GDP growth between mid-2025 and mid-2026, according to S&P Global Ratings.”

@telegraphnews.bsky.social
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 15h

Los Angeles is lousy with derelict, vacant buildings and City Hall knows it. Here's a motion, not to compel owners to fix and lease them, but to find ways to wrap them in GIANT FREAKING BILLBOARDS. Come on! We need vacancy tax, eminent domain, restoration, reactivation--not ads!

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National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) @youthlaw.bsky.social · 15h

In NCYL's latest report, “The Unraveling of ORR,” Dr. Matlow answers this question and so many more, discussing both the longstanding research on the harms of detention on children and the additional risks posed by ORR’s recent policy changes.

Read more: youthlaw.org/resources/un...

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 17h

...stress induced Takis binges, red dust on a computer keyboard, and working with a great team to secure justice for folks who should have it but don't.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 19h

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

“Why Sergio?”: Deportation ends 36-year dream for celebrated Waco chef

Sergio Garcia built a wide following for his regional Mexican cuisine over the decades, becoming a favorite of the White House press corps visiting Waco during the Bush presidency. Then in March, ICE ...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 19h

This is a soulless attack on ourselves. Every one of his customers is a victim. Every person who worked for him. Not to mention his family and friends. Mass deportation isn’t us versus them. It’s us versus us.

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 21h

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 21h

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

www.vanityfair.com

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 21h

“They are so sloppy and the courts are having to deal with it,” said Vera Weisz, who has been practicing immigration law for more than four decades. “There is some absurdity to it, but that’s the least of it.”

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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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 23h

There are now two Americas when it comes to housing:

In one, people work multiple jobs and still can't afford a home.

In the other, housing isn't a place to live but a portfolio to grow.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Real estate investors bought one-third of all single-family residential homes sold in the second quarter of 2025.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22h

A Dem legislator raised a good point in a CNN interview today: if you want to combat gun violence in Chicago, why not look at where the guns are coming from? www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

The red-state invasion that worsened Chicago gun violence

President Trump's eager deployment of federal and federalized troops is ostensibly rooted in fighting crime. Maybe he actually believes that; he did apparently see some footage from 2020 on the TV and...

www.pbump.net

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

Flanders: Oh, let's go dear. I expect that type of language at Denny's but not here.

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 1d

While a law known as the Posse Comitatus Act generally forbids the use of the armed forces for law enforcement purposes, another law called the Insurrection Act creates an exception. Mr. Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act at the border, enabling the use of federal troops to apprehend migrants, Mr. Miller said.

“Bottom line,” he said, “President Trump will do whatever it takes.”

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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 1d

“My biggest fear is going to the hospital."

Pregnant immigrants are terrified ICE will show up outside the doctors' office or at the hospital. So they're skipping the care necessary to ensure a healthy birth.

Some experience dangerous complications as a result.

19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Although border czar Tom Homan has repeatedly said he recused himself from any “involvement, discussion, input, or decision of any future government contracts,” ProPublica obtained records showing he has had at least some involvement in contracting conversations.

Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign

A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 1d

…and giving your five-year-old a synopsis of your favorite Simpsons episode (Homer’s Enemy/the one with Frank Grimes) during his bubbly bath time.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats have been slow to respond to the prolfieration of right-wing information, misinformation and disinformation channels on WhatsApp. By this point, 70 percent of Latinos use WhatsApp and are more prone to disinformation exposure.
cisneros.columbian.gwu.edu/spanish-spea...

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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 1d

“No one can ever take away or erase our mark.” — Bad Bunny, during his SNL opening monologue.

Latinos have built this country, opened doors, and shaped its future. Their contributions aren’t just part of America’s story — they are America’s story.

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 1d

Reflections on last week's #WeekWithoutDriving in a city that still refuses to acknowledge the existence of its nondrivers — which a comprehensive new report claims make up one-third of LA's population

One-third of Angelenos do not drive

Walking back the "car-free" games promise is unconscionable in a city where the people who don't drive are also the most vulnerable users of our streets

www.torched.la

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