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Tina Vasquez

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Features editor, @prismreports : tina @prismreports .org. Repped by @IwalaniKim . Board member, @PressOn_South .

Downey, CA/W-S, NC

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Joined August 2013

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Tina Vasquez

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Pinning this to my profile: If you are reaching out to me with a tip, a potential story, a request for an interview, or anything else, the best way to reach me is my work email address that's in my bio. I rarely check DMs and this hellscape is not a good place to communicate!

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Tina Vasquez

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7 years

BLOOP.

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Tina Vasquez

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My dad, who is a janitor, told me the holiday season is very hard on him because people have office parties & don’t clean up after themselves, which doubles his work. So, PSA: Don’t be an asshole. If you have an office party, tidy up after. Shit doesn’t magically clean itself.

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THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT VANS.

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But who arrested her family member???

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The Asian women who were murdered in Atlanta had full, complex lives and it is so overwhelmingly clear that most newsrooms do not have the skills, expertise, or analysis to report on these women in a way that does not dehumanize them and empathize with the shooter.

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This is not “low-skilled” labor.

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This incredibly skilled worker earns $1.86 per 60 bundles of radishes. She’s done this work for the same employer for more than a decade and has the method down to a science. #WeFeedYou #ThankAFarmworker

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My dad watches a lot of HGTV and never, ever do they show the faces of the Latino men who are actually performing the home renovations. They are just brown arms. That's all you see.

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Tina Vasquez

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Everyone is dealing with exhaustion and unable to concentrate on basic tasks, right?

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Tina Vasquez

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Does my father, who has been a hospital janitor for 15 years and has spent the pandemic cleaning COVID patients' rooms, count as a "healthcare worker" prioritized for the vaccine, or nah?

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Tina Vasquez

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This morning I interviewed a person who does abortion access work in the Midwest. I asked about the story of the 10 year old rape victim in Ohio who had to travel to Indiana for abortion care. The worker said they have helped two 11 year olds access care this week.

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To request asylum, you have to be physically present in the United States. I wish that instead of parroting false narratives like this from federal officials, reporters would actually push back.

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Nick Miroff

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"This is not the way to come to the United States," Mayorkas says in Del Rio. "Trying to enter the United States illegally is not worth the tragedy, the money or the effort."

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Multiple grassroots groups have confirmed that trans activist and asylum seeker Melissa Nuñez was murdered in Honduras this week after being deported by the Biden administration.

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My dad called me earlier to tell me that the hospital he works at is at capacity with Covid patients, and that they have set up an outdoor tent for overflow patients just like at the beginning of the pandemic. I hate this very, very much.

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This is a defining moment for Kamala Harris. I will never forget this. (It’s also in violation of asylum laws…)

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The Recount

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“I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come.” — VP Kamala Harris during news conference with Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei

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Tina Vasquez

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Y’all are really so basic. There were a lot of journalists of color IN PARTICULAR covering Obama critically, including me. And immigrant communities were protesting and marching in the street, calling Obama the deporter-in-chief. Y’all just weren’t listening.

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Tim Young

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All the people outraged at #ICEraid today were completely silent when Obama increased enforcement of immigration laws... Why is that? 🤔

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Tina Vasquez

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Why do white liberals love Pete Buttigieg but not Julián Castro? Why are white journalists framing Pete Buttigieg as a solid contender for the nomination, while framing Julián Castro as out of the realm of possibility? These questions answer themselves, obviously.

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Tina Vasquez

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Forcing people to remain pregnant and give birth is state violence.

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Tina Vasquez

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6 years

Journalism is failing again. There is no critical analysis in much of the mainstream reporting about Central American asylum seekers. Do you think people would really choose to migrate to the U.S. right now, under this administration, if they weren't running for their lives?

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4 years

UPDATE: I woke up to the greatest news. My dad is getting the vaccine on Monday!!

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Tina Vasquez

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Does my father, who has been a hospital janitor for 15 years and has spent the pandemic cleaning COVID patients' rooms, count as a "healthcare worker" prioritized for the vaccine, or nah?

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Tina Vasquez

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We’re all depressed, right?

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Tina Vasquez

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6 years

A MOTHERFUCKING MESSAGE.

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Tina Vasquez

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I have cried all weekend. I couldn't figure out why, and then I realized that tomorrow is the 11-year anniversary of my mom's death. I sometimes think about how extreme trauma changes you on a cellular level; how you can develop a grief alarm clock.

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Tina Vasquez

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A group of migrants were hunted and shot by brothers Michael and Mark Sheppard last month. At the time, Michael was warden of the West Texas Detention Center run by the private prison company LaSalle Corrections. Under the Trump admin, this would have been much bigger news.

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Tina Vasquez

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3 years

Not so subtle, Chloe!

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Tina Vasquez

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I need y'all to understand that "illegal entry" is a misdemeanor. Misdemeanors are things like public intoxication and petty theft. For a misdeamnor, the United States is taking children from migrant parents and disappearing them into the system, with no plans for reunification.

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Tina Vasquez

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EXCLUSIVE: Yesterday we learned that women at the Irwin Detention Center in Georgia were forcibly sterilized. I learned that these sterilizations were performed by gynecologist Mahendra Amin, based in Douglas, Georgia.

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Exclusive: Georgia doctor who forcibly sterilized detained women has been identified

Under the Trump administration, reproductive injustice has run rampant inside the federal immigration system—stretching far beyond the family separation

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Tina Vasquez

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Folks who do this kind of work are often referred to as “low-skilled” or “unskilled” workers. There is no such thing. Also? These are the people who REALLY keep shit running.

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Tina Vasquez

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Imagine being this embarrassing.

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Tina Vasquez

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It is very very very very very very very hard to see just how differently asylum seekers are treated/reported on based on race and country of origin.

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A white supremacist lived-streamed the murder of multiple people in a predominantly Black neighborhood. He was motivated by the conspiracy theory that white people are being replaced & expressed concern about white birth rates. This is also the focus of the anti-abortion movement

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Tina Vasquez

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I woke up thinking of all the powerful organizing work in Arizona I’ve had the privilege of covering over the years. Young, Latinx organizers got rid of Arpaio, remember? And now they’ve flipped their state blue! Goddamn.

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Roxana Hernández, a 33-year-old transgender woman from Honduras who was seeking asylum in the U.S., has died in ICE custody. Roxana's is the fourth in-custody death for ICE for FY 2018.

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Tina Vasquez

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I strongly push against using this framing, which demonizes immigrant parents, many of whom fled their countries because of U.S. policies.

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Joe Biden

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Brought by parents, these children had no choice in coming here. Now they'll be sent to countries they've never known. Cruel. Not America.

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Tina Vasquez

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Border Patrol does this to humanitarian aid left for migrants in the borderlands. Law enforcement is law enforcement is law enforcement.

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Natalie Neysa Alund

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I cannot believe what I just witnessed. They pulled up onto the square with a police siren on and did this. #Louisville

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Tina Vasquez

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As we head into this weekend's widespread immigration raids, I want you to know that ICE is a dangerous, rogue agency. We have more than 15 years of evidence telling us this. ICE's primary function has become terrorizing immigrant communities.

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"The answer is not to defund the police; it's to fund the police. Fund them with resources and training." Where is the evidence that shows throwing more money at the police keeps communities safe?

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Tina Vasquez

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Just a reminder to reporters that you can call a mass shooting at a gay bar a hate crime without waiting for the cops to give you permission to do so.

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Tina Vasquez

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Any journalist worth a damn writes “pregnant people” when reporting broadly on reproductive health, rights, and justice issues—just FYI.

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This is very, very, very, very, very, VERY VERY VERY ALARMING.

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Border Patrol Will Deploy Elite Tactical Agents to Sanctuary Cities (Published 2020)

Agents from a special tactical team that normally confronts smugglers on the border are being sent to sanctuary cities across the country.

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This is so very important. Survivors of internment camps, survivors of the Holocaust, they are speaking out against ICE and its inhumane detention and deportation practices.

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Tina Vasquez

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Please cover Nury Martinez's racist comments with the complexity it deserves. This requires more than a conversation about anti-Black Latinos. That framing always erases AfroLatinos, and this is very specifically about the anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity of Mexican Americans

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Tina Vasquez

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DACA recipients are here to stay, bitch!

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Tina Vasquez

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4 years

Today I heard an eight year old boy who has been detained for more than a year plead for help. Thirty minutes later, I interviewed a woman who was forcefully sterilized in a California prison. Wherever we cage people, there is reproductive injustice.

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Tina Vasquez

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Reporting about 40 migrants found dead inside a tractor trailer in Texas still overwhelmingly focuses on the "surge" at the southern border. Journalism is committed to stigmatizing and dehumanizing migrants, even when they're dead.

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Tina Vasquez

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Just a friendly reminder that our immigration system is violent and inhumane no matter who is in office.

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Tina Vasquez

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Yes, I’m deeply alarmed by the federal agents brutalizing citizens in American cities. But I’ve also spent my entire adult life writing about federal agents brutalizing migrants and undocumented people both at the border and in every corner of this country.

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Tina Vasquez

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Blessed are the janitors, custodians, housekeepers, and other domestic workers.

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Tina Vasquez

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EXCLUSIVE: For @prismreports , @NicoleFroio found that Planned Parenthood paid the arms manufacturer Raytheon more than $3 million for IT services, leading to larger questions about divestment in the repro movement.

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Why does Planned Parenthood contract with Raytheon?

Few demands for divestment in the repro rights movement have emerged, likely because workers are unaware of Planned Parenthood's connection to Raytheon

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Tina Vasquez

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Why do people continue to have weddings-including small family-only affairs? This is the person you’re ostensibly gonna spend your WHOLE LIFE WITH, but y’all can’t wait a year or two?

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Tina Vasquez

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ICE is reporting that Efrain De La Rosa, a Mexican immigrant from Puebla, has reportedly committed suicide while detained at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA. His is the third death at the facility in 15 months.

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Tina Vasquez

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When are news outlets going to start calling Stephen Miller racist, xenophobic, violently anti-immigrant, etc., instead of an “immigration hardliner?” He’s a white supremacist with deep ties to hate groups. Stop fucking around.

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Tina Vasquez

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Also, good morning.

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The local news has identified her as Jismary Alejandra Barboza Gonzales from Colombia. She died just a few days before her 4th birthday.

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A child forced onto one of Greg Abbott's "migrant buses" died en route to Chicago. They were three years old.

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I know the Supreme Court just made it official that ICE can hold people in detention indefinitely, but y'all should also know that ICE HAS BEEN holding people in detention indefinitely.

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Tina Vasquez

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For @thelilynews , I wrote in June about my dad’s upcoming retirement and how he wanted me to fly to L.A. and film him on his last day of work exiting the hospital where he was a janitor for 19 years. At 3:30 this morning, we were able to make that video.

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Tina Vasquez

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There has been a lot of talk of Black mermaids lately, so I wanted to share some beautiful artwork from the children’s book “Julián Is a Mermaid,” about an Afro-Latino gender nonconforming child who LOVES mermaids.

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Tina Vasquez

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Hi, hello. THE DOJ IS REVOKING PEOPLE'S CITIZENSHIP:

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Justice Department Announces Court Order Revoking Naturalized Citizenship, Citing Fingerprint Issue

Operation Janus may revoke the citizenship of thousands of people, according to the Department of Homeland Security, some of whom have been U.S. citizens for decades.

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Tina Vasquez

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Hi. THERE IS NO “EMERGENCY” AT THE BORDER. THERE IS A HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS AT THE BORDER BECAUSE OF THE TRUMP ADMIN’S CONSTANT ATTACKS ON ASYLUM SEEKERS & OTHER MIGRANTS, MOST OF WHOM MIGRATED BECAUSE U.S. FOREIGN POLICY CONTRIBUTED TO THE DESTABILAZION OF THEIR COUNTRIES. Ok, bye

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Tina Vasquez

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@HRamirez10 This is painfully accurate

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Tina Vasquez

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If you too come from poverty and you have a parent getting ready to retire without any actual retirement funds in place, I will light a candle for you.

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Tina Vasquez

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If you are alarmed by the “domestic supply of infants” line—as you should be—I highly recommend reading @kathrynajoyce ’s “The Child Catchers” and learning about the role that religious adoption agencies like Bethany Christian Services have played, and will continue to play.

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Tina Vasquez

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PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT TRUMP FEATURING A BLACK FAMILY TO ILLUSTRATE THE SUPPOSED INHERENT VIOLENCE OF LATINO IMMIGRANTS IS 1. INTENTIONAL, AND 2. A PLOY TO DRIVE A WEDGE BETWEEN BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES.

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Tina Vasquez

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A MOTHERFUCKING THREAD: Because of this new executive order, you're going to be hearing a lot about the Flores Settlement, which, when boiled down, is supposed to limit the amount of time children can be detained. The feds have been trying to weasel out of this for a long time

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Another Latina has died at Fort Hood, where Vanessa Guillén was murdered. The Army alleges that 20-year-old Ana Basalduaruiz died by suicide. Her mother says that Ana complained of repeated sexual harassment, which was also the case with Guillén.

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Family of female soldier who died at Fort Hood demand answers as Army says no foul play evident

The soldier's mother told news media her daughter reported being sexually harassed.

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Tina Vasquez

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The pandemic continues to teach me hard lessons about Americans—how little we are willing to do for others, the depth and breadth of our ignorance, and how privileged and ungrateful we are.

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Tina Vasquez

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Kim Kardashian said she got "Bo Derek braids." She is 100% out here trolling Black women. You can't convince me otherwise.

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I hope we can start talking about immigration in a way that goes beyond Dreamers and “kids in cages,” because both of those populations have parents and they matter too.

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BREAKING: DHS has instructed ICE to terminate its contract with the Irwin County Detention Center where detained women were sterilized. This was made possible by impacted people who spoke out against the abuse they experienced.

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ICE ordered to end contract with facility where detained women were sterilized

Federal immigration authorities announced they will terminate their contract with the Irwin County Detention Center.

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Tina Vasquez

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I do not have 2022 goals. I will not strive. I will not manifest. I will not set any expectations. I’m taking it one day at a time.

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Tina Vasquez

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BREAKING: Advocates are reporting that Johana Medina, a trans asylum seeker, died in ICE custody yesterday. Johana’s death happened on the first day of Pride, and a little over a year after the in-custody death of Roxsana Hernandez, a trans asylum seeker from Honduras.

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Tina Vasquez

@TheTinaVasquez

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Shoutout to my dad, a janitor at a hospital with COVID cases, who is not receiving anywhere near the PPE featured in this photo.

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Rosa A. Clemente

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On the frontlines. Let us not forget the custodians who have to clean hot spots.

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Tina Vasquez

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My parents were janitors, which made entering journalism hard. But I did force my way in & I’ve been covering immigration for 10 years. I recently wrote a series about pregnant migrants that led members of Congress to demand an investigation. BUT THANKS FOR PLAYING, BITCH.

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Tina Vasquez

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@lolacoaster I rearranged my office, which included getting a new rug and chair and moving my cat’s litter box. My cat didn’t move from the new rug for 48 hours—no eating or drinking. I took him to the vet. Hundreds of dollars later, I learned he’s just “very sensitive to change.”

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Tina Vasquez

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It’s not that I’m blocking everyone who disagrees with me about Harris; it’s that I’m blocking people who are completely incapable of being critical of their own party. If the anti-immigrant talking points are the same FOR YEARS across both parties? We gotta talk about it.

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Tina Vasquez

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You can get abortion pills by mail.

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Tina Vasquez

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I grew up reading the Los Angeles Time. This was a newspaper that was in my home every day. Despite the ways LAT failed communities of color over the years, I still turned to it hoping for more and better. I never thought I would see this day:

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An examination of The Times' failures on race, our apology and a path forward

As the U.S. confronts systemic racism, so does the Los Angeles Times. Through the paper's history, it often showed at best a blind spot, at worst outright hostility, for nonwhite Angelenos — rooted...

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Tina Vasquez

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For every large pattern of migration to the U.S. from Central America, doing even a basic scratch at the surface will reveal people are fleeing their countries of origin, in part, because of some type of US intervention/foreign policy.

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Tina Vasquez

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For folks saying I'm wrong about Obama/it distracts from Trump: You don't get to choose when history matters/whose deportations were "cruel." I also don't EVER want to hear y'all say, "How did we get here?" You don't care how we got here. It's inconvenient history for you.

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Tina Vasquez

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In case it is helpful to other reporters: I am working with an amazing new mentor who asked me to consider the following question when I report on injustice.

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Tina Vasquez

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Just entrapping undocumented immigrants, nothing to see here.

@freep

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Farmington Hills university set up by feds to nab illegal immigrants

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(I do not know the circumstances of their pregnancies.)

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Tina Vasquez

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This is really, really painful to me.

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Tina Vasquez

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NEW: For more than a decade, prominent human rights attorney Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan has presented herself as a Latina of Colombian & Puerto Rican heritage. She was heralded as the National Lawyers Guild's first Latina president. But she is a white woman.

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Tina Vasquez

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4 years

I have a big story dropping in a few minutes. It isn't about all of this, but it's important and I hope y'all read it because it acknowledges the harm of white women pretending to be women of color and uplifts the voices of Latina attorneys like @s_phia_ .

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Tina Vasquez

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If you win, I really, really look forward to reporting on this regularly and holding you accountable.

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Joe Biden

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Dreamers are Americans — and it’s time we make it official.

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Tina Vasquez

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It is always astounding to me when Americans don't listen to migrants and don't believe the stories they tell about U.S. authorities, including law enforcement and detention center officials. I believe every word.

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Tina Vasquez

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The shifts you are seeing in historically red states and in hostile states is absolutely because of years of organizing leading to this moment.

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Tina Vasquez

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Can you imagine choosing to defend Harris this week and not even mentioning her recent speech telling asylum seekers not to come to the U.S.? I can’t!

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Tina Vasquez

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Last night, it took me about three hours to make enchiladas from scratch, including the sauce, the filling, and the tortillas- and I didn't even make the masa myself! It was a needed reminder of how DEEPLY offensive the assumption is that Mexican food should be fast and cheap.

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Tina Vasquez

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As I tweeted the other day, my 10-year-old niece—who was very excited to go to a drag queen story hour—ultimately decided against attending when she was here because she was afraid she'd get shot.

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Tina Vasquez

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Abortion on demand and without apology.

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Tina Vasquez

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For the entirety of this year (and we’ll before), violent factions of right wing movements have been showing up at bars, libraries, bookstores, etc to harass and intimidate LGBTQ people and to threaten drag performers with violence. Let’s not pretend.

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Tina Vasquez

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Brett Kavanaugh is crying out of embarrassment, and because of how his history of sexual abuse will now impact his life moving forward. This is how abusers operate. It is not remorse, it is not because he is innocent. It is because he may be held accountable, and he is scared.

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Tina Vasquez

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As I reported last week: A federal law bars active-duty military from enforcing domestic law, including immigration laws, without congressional approval. In other words, any active-duty military troops deployed to the southern border CANNOT engage in immigration enforcement.

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"The additional troops would mean that the number of U.S. forces deployed at the border would be greater than those currently in Syria and Iraq, and roughly half of those deployed in Afghanistan." They're calling it "Operation Faithful Patriot."

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Tina Vasquez

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Doctors are heroes. And janitors are heroes. And food service workers are heroes. And grocery store workers are heroes. And journalists are heroes. And parents are heroes. And I'm so, so deeply sorry that you have to be heroes because our system has failed you.

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Tina Vasquez

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Whenever I vote, I think of all the undocumented folks who have lived in the U.S. for decades, paid billions of dollars in taxes, and have no say in the electoral process. Taxation without representation is real.

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Tina Vasquez

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Men kill women every day. The problem is men, not migration.

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Karin Housley

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This is what is soooo wrong. Just some “Girl In Iowa.” Could be be just “your daughter, your sister, or your friend.” A murder at the hands of an ILLEGAL?!?! Trying to process. There needs to be immigration reform ASAP. Enough.

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Tina Vasquez

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Children of immigrants, undocumented kids, first gen babies who are 1st in the family to go to college: I love y'all

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Tina Vasquez

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I've spoken to a lot of young people recently, many of whom discussed being raised in conservative homes. They went on to attend liberal arts schools where they were introduced to different kinds of people, activism, and academic work that changed them.

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Tina Vasquez

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He was mostly calling to tell me that we should cancel our plans to see each other this fall-on his 71st birthday-because he is worried about me traveling and getting sick. I missed his 70th birthday too.

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Tina Vasquez

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My job is to report on how immigration policies impact immigrant communities. And guess fucking what? Everyone has been trash to immigrants. Our policies are trash.

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