Gabe Ortíz4d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116325611959831389

The #DACA recipient’s “return home is a monumental victory for all of us who have been fighting to bring attention to the grave threats against the DACA program,” said the #HomeIsHere Coalition. “Maria’s victory is a reminder to the federal government that due process isn’t optional.”

Gabe OrtízMar 17

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116245947594520550

DHS has already deported some #DACA holders. Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez was at her green card interview when she was abducted by ICE.

“I followed the rules and showed up to my immigration appointment,” she said. “Instead, I was taken away from my daughter and forced out of the country overnight.” #HomeIsHere

Gabe OrtízMar 17

“Trump administration #DACA delays are causing immigrants to lose work and risk getting deported.”

“‘You feel like a dog on the corner waiting for somebody to feed them,’ DACA recipient Victor Jardon-Reyes, 33, told the Chicago Tribune.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-daca-deportation-kristi-noem-b2938925.html #HomeIsHere

‘You feel like a dog’: Trump administration DACA delays are causing immigrants to lose work and risk getting deported

More than 200 DACA recipients have been arrested since Trump took office

The Independent
Gabe OrtízNov 12
"Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his #DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact, Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime." https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/how-my-friend-and-fellow-journalist-was-targeted-by-ice/ #HomeIsHere
When Storytelling Is Called ‘Terrorism’: How My Friend and Fellow Journalist Was Targeted by ICE

As a DACA recipient, Ya'akub Ira Vijandre’s arrest holds drastic implications for the state of free speech in America.

The Barbed Wire
Gabe OrtízNov 12

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115538001437491575

"The attack on #DACA has wrought fear, uncertainty, and chaos on the lives of young people who bought into the American Dream that the US government sold to them. 'What the government is trying to do is really unprecedented,' said Rebecca Sheff, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of New Mexico who represented Gamez Lira, describing it as 'a real betrayal.'" #HomeIsHere

Gabe OrtízNov 12

"Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/dreamers-daca-trump-deportation-detention-betrayal-big-feature/ #HomeIsHere

Then they came for the Dreamers

Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.

Mother Jones
Gabe OrtízOct 15

“I’m overwhelmed with joy and relief,” said Alejandra, the wife of a #DACA recipient who was recently released from ICE custody. “Paulo belongs with our family, not in a detention center.”

There’s power in standing up for each other: https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/unjustly-detained-immigrants-win #HomeIsHere

Unjustly Detained Immigrants Win Freedom Following Legal Action And Community Pushback: ‘I Am Beyond Grateful’

There’s power in standing up for each other.

Combating Nativist Narratives
Show threadGabe OrtízOct 13
Gamez Lira and a second #DACA recipient from Texas, Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago, won their freedom after judges “stated that the government offered no reason for their detention and that keeping them detained violated their rights to due process.” https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/unjustly-detained-immigrants-win #HomeIsHere
Unjustly Detained Immigrants Win Freedom Following Legal Action And Community Pushback: ‘I Am Beyond Grateful’

There’s power in standing up for each other.

Combating Nativist Narratives
Show threadGabe OrtízOct 13
Forklift operator and #DACA recipient Paulo Cesar Gamez Lira was detained after unmarked vehicles and plainclothes officers surrounded his car back in August. Two of his four US citizen children were in the vehicle whim. Video footage reviewed by Texas Monthly showed that one of his children began to weep from terror. #HomeIsHere
Gabe OrtízOct 13
“I’m overwhelmed w/joy and relief,” said Alejandra following the release of her #DACA recipient husband. “Paulo belongs w/our family, not in a detention center. This has been the most difficult time of our lives, but we never lost hope that justice would prevail.” https://open.substack.com/pub/americasvoicecnn/p/unjustly-detained-immigrants-win?r=1psrs&utm_medium=ios #HomeIsHere
Unjustly Detained Immigrants Win Freedom Following Legal Action And Community Pushback: ‘I Am Beyond Grateful’

There’s power in standing up for each other.

Combating Nativist Narratives