Roberto Alejandro Lopez

Community Organizer @TXCivilRights | from the 956 😛 | Aspiring Good Person | Destroyer of Walls

[Roberto Alejandro Lopez @RobertoAleLopez]

#HB4 in 4th #TXLege special session is laid out. This grants police officers across Texas to arrest and remove anyone they suspect is here without papers -

HB 4 creates an entirely new immigration system in the U.S., separate and unequal, and dares other states to follow suit.

[Texas Civil Rights Project @TXCivilRights]

📢 A family was torn apart while seeking medical care for their daughter with brain tumor. Now, they are stranded in Mexico, separated from their U.S. citizen children. This should never happen.

🖊 Sign the petition to reunite them: https://t.co/yui1S8yvMY

#EndFamilySeparation

[Roberto Alejandro Lopez @RobertoAleLopez]

U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents

https://t.co/IpHtm4lJbI

[Armando Tonatiuh Torres-García @GarciaReports]

NEW -- TX Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is offering the incoming Trump administration a 1400-acre plot of land "to construct deportation facilities."

[Lone Star Defenders Office @LS_Defenders]

Yesterday, we testified before the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission about the awful conditions of confinement #OperationLoneStar clients face in Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) custody. This isn’t the first time we’ve rung the alarm about OLS jail conditions.🧵#txlege

[Texas Civil Rights Project @TXCivilRights]

✨ Today marks the start of our Road to Día de los Muertos 🕯️💐, where we honor the lives lost during migration 🦋 due to CBP and Border Patrol’s inhuman policies.

[Texas Civil Rights Project @TXCivilRights]

Children separated under Zero Tolerance in 2018 are coming together to share their stories and talk about the cruelty they experienced under the Trump admin's policies

Join the #FamiliesStillBelong movement by following @SameStoryVoices and learn more about protecting families.

[Adam Isacson @adam_wola]

We'll never know how many lives Eduardo Canales saved—dozens? maybe hundreds—by leaving water stations in Brooks County, Texas, where huge numbers of migrants are lost to dehydration.

We'll miss him and hope that the vital work of the South Texas Human Rights Center continues.

[Aarón Torres @AaronTorres_]

BREAKING: The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the injunction in the border buoys case in Eagle Pass

This means Texas can keep the buoys in the Rio Grande

A federal judge granted the injunction & 3-judge panel affirmed it in 2023
https://t.co/F2gsShqRl1

[bekah hinojosa @beksbot]

Hey y'all, our comrade & fellow community organizer, Eddie Canales, is battling cancer. Please donate.

Eddie is the leader of the South TX Human Rights Center, which puts water stations for migrants crossing.

Stand with Eddie Canales: Health Crisis https://t.co/6ofAqLqnKT

[Roberto Alejandro Lopez @RobertoAleLopez]

Watching State Reps fearmonger about China/cartels/Russia working together on the #border and being everywhere, in Microsoft, in the walls, perhaps even controlling the very words they're saying in the hearing room.

#TXLege

[Houston Chronicle @HoustonChron]

President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the federal government had to delay distribution of emergency relief supplies after Hurricane Beryl hit Texas because the White House could not reach state leaders to get the major disaster declaration request needed. https://t.co/fdUF2N2O8z

[Lege TV @legetv]

Sarah Cruz, ACLU of Texas, testifies on findings from over two years of data gathered from Operation Lone Star
#txlege
@ACLUTx

https://t.co/ZRIQuTRXez

[Roberto Alejandro Lopez @RobertoAleLopez]

A powerful moment in public testimony at the Senate #Border Security hearing. Universalists are sharing testimony folks in from Eagle Pass, who see the harms of Operation Lone Star.

So powerful to see one panel representing organizing and connecting across Texas.

[Roberto Alejandro Lopez @RobertoAleLopez]

The #Texas Senate Border Security Committee is holding a hearing today with around a dozen law enforcement agency heads.

Border Czar Banks shared that #OLS efforts are embedded in Border Patrol, not a day goes by that he doesn't communicate with them. USBP is in "lock-step."

[Roberto Alejandro Lopez @RobertoAleLopez]

We have Bryan Collier, head of TDCJ, here, and no one asked a question about the insane conditions that people go through in #OLS custody.

In April, a public defender recounted what people go through before the TDCJ board: https://t.co/3gm7GoiLxB

[Roberto Alejandro Lopez @RobertoAleLopez]

A part of Morgan’s testimony on TDCJ conditions for immigrants detained under OLS #EndOLS

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

Comparing migrants to animals in the same conversation you’re discussing shooting pepper bullets at them…