FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1/29/2025
MEDIA CONTACT: Edder Díaz Martínez, Communications Director, [email protected]
FRESNO, Calif. –– In light of the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security escalation of immigration enforcement operations across the nation and a pending Senate appropriations vote, GreenLatinos California issues the following statement:
“In California, we know firsthand what it means to be targeted first and hardest by reckless immigration enforcement,” said Pedro Hernandez, California State Program Director. “Long before these tactics spread nationwide, our communities were already experiencing raids, harassment in green spaces, family separations, workplace intimidation - leading to the criminalization of everyday life. These reckless enforcement actions have undermined public health, weakened climate and environmental justice efforts, and tear at the fabric of our democracy by violating basic civil and human rights. Congress must act to stop the abuse of publicly-funded federal actions by prohibiting militarized enforcement tactics, requiring transparency and independent investigations into deaths and civil-rights violations, enforcing strict compliance with constitutional protections, and holding agency leadership—including Secretary Kristi Noem—accountable for unlawful and dangerous actions.”
