Gabe Ortíz
@tusk81.bsky.social
Trying to fight the good fight at @americasvoice.bsky.social 🇺🇸 Immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, cats 🏳️🌈 Cancer survivor. Views here my own ✨ San Francisco📍 🌁
El-Sayed: "I believe our kids have a right to our tax dollars. I'm about 10 min away from schools that look like they did 50 years ago. Our money should be spent here rather than sent in the form of bombs or tanks to foreign govts, particularly when they are doing most heinous things with them ... "
El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
Patti Smith loved the late Pope Francis. After he died, she wrote a poem calling him a “dandelion amongst the stones.”
The godmother of punk Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV this morning.
“The first planned Trump-class battleship, the U.S.S. Defiant, is likely to cost $23.4 billion, $8 billion more than the Navy initially indicated.” Meanwhile, Trump’s USDA secretary calls kicking 5 million Americans off food aid “a pretty big win”: www.commondreams.org/news/brooke-...
Trump USDA Chief Calls Kicking 5 Million People Off Food Aid 'A Pretty Big Win' | Common Dreams
"The immense hardship these families are now facing is not, in fact, 'a pretty big win,'" said one policy expert.
commondreams.org
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 4h agoHe sure loves spending your money.
“Last week, her best friend asked her to take care of her infant child if she got detained.” No words. #AbuseofPowerWatch
Abuse of Power Watch@abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 7h ago“The immigration crackdown has upended the life of Patricia Grace Louis-Jacques, a nursing student at Salisbury University who has family members and friends affected by the end of #TPS. Last week, her best friend asked her to take care of her infant child if she got detained.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
“The immigration crackdown has upended the life of Patricia Grace Louis-Jacques, a nursing student at Salisbury University who has family members and friends affected by the end of #TPS. Last week, her best friend asked her to take care of her infant child if she got detained.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
Abuse of Power Watch@abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 7h ago📍 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃: Haitian neighbors are unwilling to venture from their homes, fearing arrests and deportation since the Trump administration moved to end Temporary Protected Status. "If you really send us [to Haiti], you send us to die,” said one local faith leader. #AbuseofPowerWatch
📍 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃: Haitian neighbors are unwilling to venture from their homes, fearing arrests and deportation since the Trump administration moved to end Temporary Protected Status. "If you really send us [to Haiti], you send us to die,” said one local faith leader. #AbuseofPowerWatch
Empty pews and fear of ICE on Maryland’s Eastern Shore after TPS ends for Haitians
Community members are unwilling to venture from their homes, fearing arrests and deportation since the Trump administration moved to end Temporary Protected Status.
nbcnews.com
“The company says more sales possible.” The administration could be working to bring down prices for everyone that’s struggling to pay bills right now. It’s choosing mass deportation and private prison executives instead.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h agoICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.
ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.
Some fines against immigrants “have reached up to $1.8 million.” “It makes no sense to go after people here if they don't have the money,” said one legal advocate. “Presumably they don’t have the money there, and they’re not subject to collections. What’s the point of this?” #AbuseofPowerWatch
Abuse of Power Watch@abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 6h ago📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: CBP is reportedly seeking to hire private investigators to track down deported immigrants and others who have left the US, and press them into paying the government fines under an obscure provision of immigration law that sat unused until Trump’s first term. #AbuseofPowerWatch
📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: CBP is reportedly seeking to hire private investigators to track down deported immigrants and others who have left the US, and press them into paying the government fines under an obscure provision of immigration law that sat unused until Trump’s first term. #AbuseofPowerWatch
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
wired.com
Trump has been “using clemency and pardons to get corporate healthcare fraudsters off the hook.” "An analysis by the California governor’s office found that Trump’s pardons had wiped nearly $2B in victim repayment and taxpayer recovery for Medicare and tax fraud, as well as other types of fraud.”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 7h agoThe OIG report “highlights the obvious: Corporations — not small immigrant-oriented healthcare providers, or undocumented immigrants illegally taking benefits — are responsible for the vast majority of alleged fraud in the American health care system.”
The OIG report “highlights the obvious: Corporations — not small immigrant-oriented healthcare providers, or undocumented immigrants illegally taking benefits — are responsible for the vast majority of alleged fraud in the American health care system.”
Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez@ramirez.house.gov · 7h agoBig corporations and their lackeys in the Trump administration scapegoat immigrants to divert attention from their theft and abuse. While they lie to us about the problem they are the ones stealing from working people. Plain and simple, they want us divided and distracted while they rob us.
Big corporations and their lackeys in the Trump administration scapegoat immigrants to divert attention from their theft and abuse. While they lie to us about the problem they are the ones stealing from working people. Plain and simple, they want us divided and distracted while they rob us.
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows
Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.
theintercept.com
“Like other Haitians losing #TPS, they now face an agonizing choice: Try to stay in the US and find underground work, constantly fearful of being caught by [ICE] agents. Or return to a nation so overwhelmed by gang violence and poverty that some feel deportation is tantamount to a death sentence.”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 8h ago“In Salisbury, the Eastern Shore’s biggest city, about 10% of the 33,000 residents are Haitian, many of them employed under #TPS as farmworkers, caregivers and in the poultry plants that are the region’s economic backbone.”
“In Salisbury, the Eastern Shore’s biggest city, about 10% of the 33,000 residents are Haitian, many of them employed under #TPS as farmworkers, caregivers and in the poultry plants that are the region’s economic backbone.”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 8h ago“Empty pews and fear of ICE grip Maryland’s Eastern Shore after #TPS ends for Haitians. As Temporary Protected Status expires, many Haitian immigrants in Salisbury retreat from daily life, fearing arrest and deportation." haitiantimes.com/2026/08/05/m...
“Empty pews and fear of ICE grip Maryland’s Eastern Shore after #TPS ends for Haitians. As Temporary Protected Status expires, many Haitian immigrants in Salisbury retreat from daily life, fearing arrest and deportation." haitiantimes.com/2026/08/05/m...
Empty pews and fear of ICE grip Maryland's Eastern Shore after TPS ends for Haitians
Haitian immigrants on Maryland's Eastern Shore face fear, canceled community events and possible deportation after Temporary Protected Status expires.
haitiantimes.com
“ICE detained Rodriguez Caglianone at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport as she attempted to travel to North Carolina to watch the FIFA World Cup on July 19 w/friends.” “They handcuffed me like a criminal,” she said. She has no record and formerly held #TPS 👇🏽 #AbuseofPowerWatch
Abuse of Power Watch@abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 9h ago📍 𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐀: Ex-ICE detainee says elderly, pregnant and sick individuals were treated like “animals in a zoo” while in immigration custody. “There were people that had cancer. They did their first chemo before they were in, and they were not allowed to get their second chemo.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
📍 𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐀: Ex-ICE detainee says elderly, pregnant and sick individuals were treated like “animals in a zoo” while in immigration custody. “There were people that had cancer. They did their first chemo before they were in, and they were not allowed to get their second chemo.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
Ex-ICE detainee says elderly, pregnant women, and breast cancer patient were mistreated in Broward
Claudia Carolina Rodriguez Caglianone, who has been living in South Florida since 2017, said she and other U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees were treated like animals.
local10.com
“'How can I even focus on my military career because I have to worry about how my wife is doing?’ said Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez, who was stationed in Fort Bliss, Texas, when his wife was detained outside a Walmart in front of their 6-year-old daughter in July." #AbuseofPowerWatch
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
apnews.com
Military family members “have generally been shielded from deportation under bipartisan consensus for decades … they’re now routinely being detained for months … and even as the military continues to recruit by advertising immigration benefits for enlistees’ families.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
www.epi.org/deportation-... The Economic Policy Institute has released the Cost of Deportations Calculator. The tool shows how many tax dollars are paying for deportations in each state, county, and city. The calculator shows what that money could be spent on instead—such as school teachers.
The Cost of Deportations Calculator
The Trump administration is taking billions of _your_ taxpayer dollars to pay for mass deportations. The Cost of Deportations Calculator shows what could this money be used for instead.
epi.org
"This administration had a choice: bring down costs for American families, or pour its resources into mass deportation instead. It chose deportation. That choice carries a price, and American families are paying the ICE tax.” #EndtheICETax
America's Voice@americasvoice.bsky.social · 11h agoLearn more about #EndtheICEtax: americasvoiceeducationfund.org/end-the-ice-...
"America’s Voice analyzed 12 months of federal price data ending in June and found costs are rising fastest for foods whose production relies heavily on immigrant labor." via @cnbc.com
Trump's deportation agenda raised prices, contracted local economies, immigration group says
A report released Wednesday by the immigration advocacy group America's Voice argues President Trump's immigration policy is hurting the economy.
cnbc.com
This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
