Andrew Herrera
@andrewherrera.bsky.social
Advocate, Organizer, Comms Specialist. President at Herrera Strategy.
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A 6-year-old boy in Queens is one of the youngest migrants to be taken from a parent by ICE and placed in federal custody in New York City as part of President Trump’s deportation crackdown. The child and his father fled China earlier this year.
ICE Separates Boy, 6, From Father During Effort to Deport Them to China
The child and his father fled China earlier this year and the boy had just been enrolled in school. Federal officials have tried and failed to send them back.
nyti.ms
December 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A 6-year-old boy in Queens is one of the youngest migrants to be taken from a parent by ICE and placed in federal custody in New York City as part of President Trump’s deportation crackdown. The child and his father fled China earlier this year.
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rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
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"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
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Trying to piece together footage from the last few months in any coherent way just feels like making a trailer for a horror movie starring the feds...and all things considered, that's probably about where we're at.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Trying to piece together footage from the last few months in any coherent way just feels like making a trailer for a horror movie starring the feds...and all things considered, that's probably about where we're at.
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This is how to write a headline about repeated liars.
Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago
Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is how to write a headline about repeated liars.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree
mainstream media report on jd vance’s twitter mutuals, challenge level: impossible
He has already chosen, what the fuck are we doing here
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
November 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree
What an absolute loser.
Love the shade ABOVE the fold. Prez press secretary blames party for HER failure to communicate the president's achievements so she...leaves the party.
Personal loyalty over integrity and values is what got us here.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Love the shade ABOVE the fold. Prez press secretary blames party for HER failure to communicate the president's achievements so she...leaves the party.
Personal loyalty over integrity and values is what got us here.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Why Biden’s White House Press Secretary Is Leaving the Democratic Party
Karine Jean-Pierre feels that Democrats were so mean to Biden that she is becoming an Independent.
www.newyorker.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 AM
What an absolute loser.
Love the shade ABOVE the fold. Prez press secretary blames party for HER failure to communicate the president's achievements so she...leaves the party.
Personal loyalty over integrity and values is what got us here.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Love the shade ABOVE the fold. Prez press secretary blames party for HER failure to communicate the president's achievements so she...leaves the party.
Personal loyalty over integrity and values is what got us here.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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If the amount of fedposting going on on Instagram isn't a clear indication of rapid radicalization of normies against ICE, dunno what is really. The algorithm over there doesn't appear to yet be suppressing ICE related content much either (for us, anyway). TikTok, OTOH, has clamped down hard
October 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
If the amount of fedposting going on on Instagram isn't a clear indication of rapid radicalization of normies against ICE, dunno what is really. The algorithm over there doesn't appear to yet be suppressing ICE related content much either (for us, anyway). TikTok, OTOH, has clamped down hard
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“Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b----,” before pulling over & shooting the woman five times.”
DHS has lied, a lot, about every act of violence.
DHS has lied, a lot, about every act of violence.
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
trib.al
October 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b----,” before pulling over & shooting the woman five times.”
DHS has lied, a lot, about every act of violence.
DHS has lied, a lot, about every act of violence.
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"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
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It’s time—it was time, years and years ago—to stop quoting the police for their account of events, esp those involving them, immediately after said event.
“ICE officers shot a man. ICE provided a comment, but will refrain from reporting it until we have more information and confirmation.”
“ICE officers shot a man. ICE provided a comment, but will refrain from reporting it until we have more information and confirmation.”
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
trib.al
October 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
It’s time—it was time, years and years ago—to stop quoting the police for their account of events, esp those involving them, immediately after said event.
“ICE officers shot a man. ICE provided a comment, but will refrain from reporting it until we have more information and confirmation.”
“ICE officers shot a man. ICE provided a comment, but will refrain from reporting it until we have more information and confirmation.”
They’re saying the quiet part out loud and still our leaders do fuck all about it
Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago.
He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.”
“How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.”
“How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’
Immigration agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidatio...
chicago.suntimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
They’re saying the quiet part out loud and still our leaders do fuck all about it
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🦗🦗🦗
==ICE informed [Broadview Police] officials that ICE agents will be again deploying chemical arms, such as tear gas, pepper spray, etc. against American citizens, our residents, and our first responders," according to the village of Broadview.==
Gov? AG? CCSAO? 🦗🦗🦗
Gov? AG? CCSAO? 🦗🦗🦗
ICE told Broadview officials that federal agents will launch a “shitshow” of force on the entire village today “in retaliation for criticism of the federal response to increasingly heated protests”
September 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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It's just some light "show me your papers" fascism any time you leave your house just learn to live with it, says the man credibly accused of multiple sexual assaults.
This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
September 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It's just some light "show me your papers" fascism any time you leave your house just learn to live with it, says the man credibly accused of multiple sexual assaults.
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Gonna be awkward in a week when city government does its annual ritual of trying to suppress Mexican Independence Day celebrations while also trying to maintain a feel-good "we've got your back" PR energy
September 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Gonna be awkward in a week when city government does its annual ritual of trying to suppress Mexican Independence Day celebrations while also trying to maintain a feel-good "we've got your back" PR energy
As someone working in communications on immigrant advocacy in Chicago, the current discourse on essentially every social platform re: ICE is virtually unintelligible, is confusing everyone, and scaring the shit out of a lot of people.
All these platforms need moderators to filter out the trash.
All these platforms need moderators to filter out the trash.
September 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
As someone working in communications on immigrant advocacy in Chicago, the current discourse on essentially every social platform re: ICE is virtually unintelligible, is confusing everyone, and scaring the shit out of a lot of people.
All these platforms need moderators to filter out the trash.
All these platforms need moderators to filter out the trash.
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I think 182 year old research articles should be free
I want to read about the man
I want to read about the man
September 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I think 182 year old research articles should be free
I want to read about the man
I want to read about the man
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Downtown Chicago is really hopping tonight. Restaurants are full. Lots of people on the sidewalks. Thousands enjoying free music at Jazz Fest.
September 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Downtown Chicago is really hopping tonight. Restaurants are full. Lots of people on the sidewalks. Thousands enjoying free music at Jazz Fest.
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Idk kinda just feels like being unafraid to call everything that's going on right now deeply wrong and refusing to be a stenographer for the secret police should be the floor of good local journalism, not the ceiling
June 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Idk kinda just feels like being unafraid to call everything that's going on right now deeply wrong and refusing to be a stenographer for the secret police should be the floor of good local journalism, not the ceiling
The mayor is 100% right on this. This is a lazy, ineffectual, and legally dubious policy that criminalizes our youth and does nothing for public safety.
The council should vote this down.
The council should vote this down.
A measure that would allow CPD officials to preemptively impose a curfew anywhere in the city and begin enforcing it with just 30 minutes is a “lazy” and “sloppy” attempt to stop large teen gatherings that won’t work, Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday.
A vote is set for today. @wttw.bsky.social
A vote is set for today. @wttw.bsky.social
Johnson Blasts ‘Snap Curfew’ Proposal as ‘Lazy,’ ‘Sloppy’ Ahead of City Council Vote
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s blistering condemnation of the proposal raises the likelihood that he will veto the measure if it passes or ignore it and count on Supt. Larry Snelling to never use the power t...
news.wttw.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The mayor is 100% right on this. This is a lazy, ineffectual, and legally dubious policy that criminalizes our youth and does nothing for public safety.
The council should vote this down.
The council should vote this down.
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A day after Dem officials were denied access to another ICE facility in Chicago, they gave a guided tour to House Speaker Mike Johnson plus favored media.
wgntv.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A day after Dem officials were denied access to another ICE facility in Chicago, they gave a guided tour to House Speaker Mike Johnson plus favored media.
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"Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed —
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above."
~ Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above."
~ Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
June 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed —
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above."
~ Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above."
~ Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
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SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day.
My report:
My report:
ICE agents get green light to make unjustified warrantless arrests
The agency announced an accountability policy has been rescinded.
www.thehandbasket.co
June 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day.
My report:
My report: