senior policy advisor NMDWS. labor, immigration, ABQ. formerly ACLU-NM. Padres baseball sufferer.https://bsky.app/profile/leocastaneda.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/leocastaneda.bsky.social/post/3lmxecpusc22zJoin @nmdws.bsky.social and our Office of New Americans in a conversation about what businesses need to know about changing federal immigration policy https://www.linkedin.com/events/immigrationchangesandyourbusine731800322164443136116 Apr 2025 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:tp2tmrxbf22e42yviyr7bwhl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmxecpusc22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/leocastaneda.bsky.social/post/3lkue2c2ruk2gin one way, SDSU’s March Madness dreams stay alive through UCSD21 Mar 2025 04:15 +0000at://did:plc:tp2tmrxbf22e42yviyr7bwhl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkue2c2ruk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/leocastaneda.bsky.social/post/3lhtk2yzgg22efirst on the chopping block: a grocery store bring fresh fruits and vegetables to Magdalena https://www.koat.com/article/federal-funding-freeze-affecting-new-mexico-communities/6372862610 Feb 2025 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:tp2tmrxbf22e42yviyr7bwhl/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhtk2yzgg22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/leocastaneda.bsky.social/post/3kinpx6timt23"These different models for alternative crisis response are grounded in what we all know to be true: people in crisis need care, support, and access to resources, not a gun pointed at them." the answer is right there when elected officials actually want to listen https://www.aclu-nm.org/en/news/care-over-confrontation-community-safety-beyond-policing10 Jan 2024 20:43 +0000at://did:plc:tp2tmrxbf22e42yviyr7bwhl/app.bsky.feed.post/3kinpx6timt23https://bsky.app/profile/leocastaneda.bsky.social/post/3kgw7cfsyyd2yToday the ACLU of New Mexico and six other ACLU affiliates issued a travel advisory over extreme new anti-immigrant laws in Texas taking effect early next year. Here's what to know to keep yourself and your loved ones safe in TX: https://www.aclu-nm.org/en/texas-travel-advisory19 Dec 2023 18:48 +0000at://did:plc:tp2tmrxbf22e42yviyr7bwhl/app.bsky.feed.post/3kgw7cfsyyd2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/leocastaneda.bsky.social/post/3kfe7ddsvuj2kis the single dollar there a tip? do people usually tip their politically-motivated hitmen? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/nyregion/sikh-assassination-plot-charges-india.html29 Nov 2023 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:tp2tmrxbf22e42yviyr7bwhl/app.bsky.feed.post/3kfe7ddsvuj2khttps://bsky.app/profile/leocastaneda.bsky.social/post/3ke6hd4adc32jImmigrants in New Mexico paid $1.4B in taxes in 2021 and 13,000 of them started a business. great new map from the American Immigration Council https://data.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/map-the-impact/?emci=77f76940-0883-ee11-8925-00224832e811&emdi=6048c0c0-1583-ee11-8925-00224832e811&ceid=1026190914 Nov 2023 21:17 +0000at://did:plc:tp2tmrxbf22e42yviyr7bwhl/app.bsky.feed.post/3ke6hd4adc32jhttps://bsky.app/profile/leocastaneda.bsky.social/post/3kc7kex7pmk2kthis funding request acknowledges the need to support the nonprofits at the border and elsewhere doing the hard humanitarian work of welcoming people seeking asylum in the U.S. Then it lights billions of dollars on fire to fund inhumane ICE detention. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-comment-biden-border-supplemental-funding-request20 Oct 2023 20:54 +0000at://did:plc:tp2tmrxbf22e42yviyr7bwhl/app.bsky.feed.post/3kc7kex7pmk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/leocastaneda.bsky.social/post/3kb4a4mklak25the Biden admin's ability to piss off a whole constellation of activists on the left to build a wall Biden himself has said will have no actual impact on immigration is actually, in a way, very impressive https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/06/biden-border-wall-indigenous-climate-rio-grande06 Oct 2023 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:tp2tmrxbf22e42yviyr7bwhl/app.bsky.feed.post/3kb4a4mklak25