Sofía Kalogirou

My two passions: reggaetón y derechos humanos @florenceproject 🦋

[Sofía Kalogirou @sof_kal]

1/ Last month, I volunteered in a detention center with @RAICESTEXAS I thought I knew what was happening inside of these places. Some of the women I worked with experienced as much trauma in the centers as they did in the countries they were fleeing from...

[NBC Latino @NBCLatino]

Migrant kids in overcrowded Arizona border station allege sex assault, retaliation from U.S. agents, by ⁦@jacobsoboroff⁩ ⁦@JuliaEAinsley⁩ https://t.co/TEePPMrAA4

[Sofía Kalogirou @sof_kal]

Retweeting to come back to this thread later when I need a laugh

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After much consideration, I declare this the best English translation ever

[Sofía Kalogirou @sof_kal]

@BestBuySupport We don’t know who to reach out to about this incident since clearly the store manger is unable to provide a solution to their customers.

[Sofía Kalogirou @sof_kal]

Shocked by the treatment my husband received at the Santan Gilbert @BestBuy location by both an employee &manager. Racially profiled &denied service by an employee who thought the gift cards we received as credit for a return (from the same store the day before) were fake. 1/

[Sofía Kalogirou @sof_kal]

as he was in the wrong. My husband left without getting the laptop he wanted and intended to purchase, feeling very frustrated that he couldn’t even get the employee and manager to admit they were wrong and apologize to him. 5/

[Sofía Kalogirou @sof_kal]

It doesn’t matter if you an engineer hoping to get a new laptop for work, as long as you look Hispanic, you’re still at risk to be racially profiled. 6/

[Sofía Kalogirou @sof_kal]

I still can’t believe families were forced to live in these conditions during a pandemic...let alone MPP even being a policy to begin with

[Erin Sheridan @erin_sheridan]

No words for how happy this makes me (and I’m sure many others)

[Sofía Kalogirou @sof_kal]

@dougducey is the reason why this 7mo old pregnant lady is currently sick with Covid, despite working from home since March and doing everything she was supposed to do to keep safe. Thankful for state & Congressional reps @SenQuezada29 @RubenGallego who are fighting for Arizonans

[Stephanie Innes @stephanieinnes]

Why is #Arizona worst for #COVID19 nationwide? Here are 7 contributing reasons https://t.co/paRB55BXJk via @azcentral @alisteinbach

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

Justice Sotomayor opens her dissent in U.S. v. Dustin Higgs by saying the names of every person executed by the federal government over the past year.

[Sofía Kalogirou @sof_kal]

This story highlights all the different ways this country fails and abuses asylum seekers. Such a disgrace.

[Hannah Dreier @hannahdreier]

Last winter, I wrote about an asylum-seeker named Kevin and how ICE used confidential therapy notes to keep him detained.

In July, his detention center was overrun by Covid, and he gave up his case. He didn't survive even a month back in Central America.

https://t.co/SklhqtRpuC

[American Immigration Council @immcouncil]

Reminder. ⬇️
https://t.co/P7mLDFsioG

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

In 1999, the Clinton administration granted TPS to Honduras following Hurricane Mitch, which did billions of dollars of damage and killed thousands.

The Biden administration should absolutely consider the same for Hurricanes Eta and Iota, which devastated Honduras and Guatemala.

[Sofía Kalogirou @sof_kal]

“But that's not where Garcia's story ends, because when he returned to Texas he continued to endure bigotry. He was infamously denied service at a restaurant. "I've been fighting for people like you, and now you mistreat me," he reportedly said.”

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

On this day in 1944, US Army Pvt. Macario Garcia, a Mexican national who lived in Texas and was drafted into the Army in '42, performed acts of heroism that earned him the Medal of Honor.

[Sofía Kalogirou @sof_kal]

@Cleavon_MD My mom who’s an ICU nurse with Banner confirms

[Bianca Padró Ocasio @BiancaJoanie]

Anyway, while y’all were busy discussing Latinx, Guatemalan protesters lit their Congress on fire

[Sofía Kalogirou @sof_kal]

Student debt doesn’t affect just the debtor. This will change the quality of my life, my partner’s life, and our unborn child, giving us the freedom to work and invest our incomes in our family and not my loans.

[Tom Winter @WinterForMT]

Schumer saying Biden can cancel first $50,000 in student debt via executive order. And will do so in first 100 days. This will change so many lives.

[Sofía Kalogirou @sof_kal]

Only immigration attorneys will understand 😭