Gabe Ortiz's Profile
Daily Kos Staff
Staff writer at Daily Kos focusing on immigration, LGBT, Latino issues.
Real Name: Gabe Ortíz
Location: San Francisco, California
Occupation: Staff Writer
Groups: Daily Kos, LatinoKos, Connect! Unite! Act!
Twitter: TUSK81
Diaries published: 1397 (1 day since last diary on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 01:24 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 1493 (1 day since last comment on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 01:24 PM PDT)
Diary frequency: frequent
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 194
Total Comment Ratings: 0
Most Recommended Diary: 'It’s happening to everybody': California family in shock after ICE arrests dad with legal status, 405 comments, 393 recommends
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Since Republicans can’t run general election campaigns on gutting the safety net of our senior citizens, on destroying Obamacare once and for all, or the barbaric “zero tolerance” policy that has torn apart thousands of families apart at the border,...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 01:24 PM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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When incoming director L. Francis Cissna struck “nation of immigrants” from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) mission statement, he meant it. Under newly announced policy, officials now plan to use mistakes and missing information...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 10:59 AM PDT
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The Trump administration’s “temporary” prison camp for unaccompanied migrant kids and some migrant kids kidnapped from their parents at the border isn’t just going to continue through the end of the year, it’s going to get even...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 08:57 AM PDT
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Wednesday, Sept. 12, marks 48 days since Judge Dana Sabraw’s July 26 deadline, yet the Trump administration has continued to slow-walk migrant family reunification, leaving hundreds of kidnapped migrant children still separated from...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 07:48 AM PDT
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Numerous immigration judges blasted Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for his remarks to dozens of new judges earlier this week, where he not only complained about immigration courts that show too much “sympathy” in decisions, but also claimed that...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 01:22 PM PDT
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Confidential records of migrant children kidnapped from the arms of parents at the border—some as far back as a year ago—and sent to detention facilities in the Chicago area reveal kids “agonized over missing their parents and acted on their anguish by...
by Gabe Ortiz
17 comments
on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 11:43 AM PDT
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- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has only had to withdraw two appellate nominees. The second, Ryan Bounds, got booted on the basis of his racist past after Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) made clear he wouldn’t vote for him. Given Republicans’ tenuous...60 comments 160 Recs
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- The Queen of Soul has died. Condolences to the world.221 comments 199 Recs
- Last week at Netroots Nation in New Orleans, I had the opportunity to speak with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. A well-beloved figure among progressives and the Daily Kos community, Warren graciously agreed to give us some time before her speech...20 comments 118 Recs
- Over the last two years, a wide swath of Americans are finally catching up to something that many of us have known for quite some time: black women get shit done. This has been spoken about in a political context, of course, but black women’s...55 comments 125 Recs
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- Right now it feels tough to focus on anything other than Donald Trump and the chaos and political unrest he is fomenting for the nation and the world. But this is when Democrats need to multitask—because midterms are rapidly approaching and now’s the...24 comments 107 Recs
- Fundamentalist Christians and [the KKK] are pretty close, fighting for God and country. Someday we may all be in the trenches together in the fight against the slaughter of unborn children. — John Burt, 1994 New York Times interview Reversing Roe...240 comments 345 Recs
- With a set of scandals that seemed endless, zero hesitation about seizing any graft, and a willingness to lie openly to the press and Congress, Scott Pruitt was the Donald Trumpiest of Donald Trump’s cabinet members. But now he’s out of there. ...617 comments 301 Recs
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