Cecilia Muñoz
LightNews LightNews
ceciliamunoz.bsky.social
Cecilia Muñoz
@ceciliamunoz.bsky.social
5.1K followers 700 following 80 posts
Serial policy nerd: led President Obama's Domestic Policy Council after 20 years at Unidos US; now growing new NGOs. On way too many boards. Author: More Than Ready.
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
helenbranswell.bsky.social
2. On the day when it was revealed that a record number of children died from #flu last year, in the midst of a flu season that's shaping up to be a real doozy, #HHS announced it will no longer recommend flu vaccine for all children.
You read that correctly.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/c...
Federal health officials slash recommended childhood vaccinations under Trump’s directive
The number of recommended childhood shots drops from 17 to 11.
www.statnews.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:34 AM
ceciliamunoz.bsky.social
Think about it: He means roughly a quarter of all children in the US who has immigrant parents (of all statuses) and is of course grossly insulting the tens of millions of us who are no longer children, but very much still the children of immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
Stephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a Problem
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
cengizyar.com
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.

You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
rooseveltinstitute.org
Ignoring violations against immigrant workers drives down standards for all workers. #Bestof2025

@ceciliamunoz.bsky.social's essay argues that without a clear, just immigration vision, exploitation flourishes—and the whole workforce pays the price.

rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/on-immi...
Screenshot with this text highlighted: "We need to build a movement that aligns immigrant organizing with worker organizing—that's the way to conduct a conversation about the economic impact and build a policy agenda that maximizes its benefits to the sectors of our economy that too often get overlooked, or get cynically pitted against each other by political forces that don't actually care about what happens to them."
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
minakimes.bsky.social
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
alondra.bsky.social
On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights
chicagoblacksky.bsky.social Chicago Black Sky @chicagoblacksky.bsky.social · Dec 2
Illinois becomes one of the few states to regulate employer use of AI. House Bill 3773 amends the Illinois Human Rights Act to make it a civil rights violation for employers to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on race, gender, age, or disability.
www.mystateline.com/news/local-n...
www.mystateline.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
protectdemocracy.org
Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino and his masked raiders have now left not one, but *two* American cities they sought to terrorize. Their lawlessness was simply no match for the public's commitment to the Constitution. @raders.bsky.social lays out lessons from Charlotte and Chicago.
The antidote to lawlessness is the law
Anti-legalism, Charlotte, and why the Constitution is winning
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
ceciliamunoz.bsky.social
It’s been so ling since we have had a rational system that we forget what it looks like. Bottom line: create legal pathways for the people who we currently rely on to take all of the risk and work here despite our restrictive laws. Legal immigration is the antidote.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | We’re Seeing What a No-Immigration Economy Looks Like
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
palfrey.org
"The first man from Queens to be elected president and the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City met for the first time in the Oval Office on Friday."

Now that is a first sentence for the ages.
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
protectdemocracy.org
At a time when the president and his allies embrace lawlessness as a key part of their agenda, the rest of us must redouble our commitment to the law, writes Ben Raderstorf. Chicago and Charlotte have shown that it’s not just morally right — it’s a winning strategy.
https://protdem.org/44kC811
If you can keep it, November 21, 2025, The antidote to lawlessness is the law. Anti-legalism, Chicago, Charlotte, and defending our constitutional order.
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
protectdemocracy.org
ICE & Border Patrol are targeting legal immigrants who are complying with their obligations to authorities. The repercussions will be felt by all of us, writes @ansleyskipper.bsky.social. Rather than instituting a new regime of "law and order," this strategy only serves to incentivize law-breaking.
Arrested for Following the Rules
The danger of ICE’s strategy of targeting immigrants fulfilling their legal responsibilities.
www.thebulwark.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
sfcpoll.bsky.social
A Fox News poll this week found Obamacare is more popular than Trump, either party and congressional leaders. Only 3 points below Fox's all-time high for the law reached in 2023 static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/...
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ceciliamunoz.bsky.social
I needed this more than I knew.....
obamafoundation.bsky.social The Obama Foundation @obamafoundation.bsky.social · Nov 20
On this day in 2014, President Obama spoke about the unfinished work of immigration reform. In 2025, Chicagoans showed the world what these words mean.

And they organized.

Chicago, you make us proud.
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
ericmgarcia.bsky.social
In CNN’s latest poll, just 20% of Latinos approved of his job performance, down from 41% in February. This 21-point drop far outpaces the 4- and 9-point drops among Black and White Americans and the 10-point drop in his approval rating overall.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/p...
Republicans have lost ground with Latino voters after Trump’s 2024 gains | CNN Politics
A year after President Donald Trump’s re-election, Republicans are already seeing their gains among Latino voters erode, recent election results and polling suggest. Here’s what’s changed and what it ...
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
ceciliamunoz.bsky.social
We can't simply object to the horrors of this administration's approach to immigrants and immigration - though we of course must object forcefully - we also have to fix the issue that the president is exploiting. Our democracy depends on it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | ‘We Have a Border for a Reason’
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
palfrey.org
Chicago business, civic and faith leaders join together to call for end to immigration raids

abc7chicago.com/post/united-...
Chicago business, civic and faith leaders join together to call for end to immigration raids
For the first time since Operation Midway Blitz began, a large group of Chicago's business, civic and faith leaders jointed together to call for an end to the ICE raids. They say it's having a big imp...
abc7chicago.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Nov 6
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
protectdemocracy.org
James Comey’s criminal indictment is part of a larger pattern of prosecutions where the DOJ has recently used its powers to retaliate against many of the President’s perceived political opponents. Today, we filed an amicus brief in Comey's case to connect these dots: 🔗 https://protdem.org/4qvfZX9
Amicus filed Protect Democracy Challenges Retaliatory Prosecution of Comey Amicus brief highlights larger pattern of politicized prosecution
October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
marisakabas.bsky.social
This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.
heathercherone.bsky.social Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · Oct 28
"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
rooseveltinstitute.org
NEW 📰: Building a more effective government that moves beyond the status quo requires honest reflection.

Drawing on interviews with more than 45 former senior Biden officials, our latest report offers 161 practical recommendations for better governance.
https://bit.ly/4312Zid
Image featuring a classical architecture building with columns, overlaid with a text quote from Elizabeth Wilkins of the Roosevelt Institute, "In Building a More Effective, Responsive Government: Lessons Learned from the Biden-Harris Administration, former Biden-Harris senior officials Hannah Garden-Monheit and Tresa Joseph draw from the insights, recommendations, and candor of more than 45 former public servants and tell a broader story we can’t forget: The problems with these institutions did not start with Donald Trump or Elon Musk, worse as they now are. These problems are, in part, what results from decades of bipartisan neglect, disinvestment, and deference to markets."
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
npr.org
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Reposted by Cecilia Muñoz
bbkogan.bsky.social
It’s not just that they don’t have to turn off SNAP benefits — they’re not legally allowed to. They legally must use the contingency fund.

The admin is pretending they can’t use it even though their own guidance from a month ago (that they’ve since deleted) contradicts that.
smith.senate.gov Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · Oct 27
Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits.

No, they don’t have to.
October 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
ceciliamunoz.bsky.social
ESO
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
Opinion | You Caught Me. I’m Speaking Spanish.
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM