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1 week ago | 
thebulwark.com | Adrian Carrasquillo
IF ZOHRAN MAMDANI KNOCKS OFF ANDREW CUOMO in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, he will have Latino voters to thank. A Marist poll released Wednesday showed that the democratic socialist assemblymember had more than halved Cuomo’s lead from May, when Cuomo led 53 percent to 29 percent. Now Cuomo leads by just 10 points in a simulated final round of ranked-choice voting. The primary is next week.
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1 week ago | 
thebulwark.com | Adrian Carrasquillo |Carlos Espina
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1 week ago | 
thebulwark.com | Adrian Carrasquillo
THERE IS LITTLE ARGUMENT THAT the Los Angeles Dodgers are the most Latino team in baseball. The team hosts Mexican and Salvadoran heritage nights. Fernando Valenzuela is a revered figure. The ballpark features live mariachi bands before and after postseason games. But as the Trump administration has militarized the team’s home city, the Dodgers have remained notably, painfully quiet.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | Adrian Carrasquillo
Yesterday was, by his own admission, a shocking day for Senator Alex Padilla. It wasn’t just that he was physically detained after confronting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, or that he quickly became a leading figure in the Democratic party’s resistance to Donald Trump’s deportation regime. It was the little things, too—like the person who ran down the hall to yell at law enforcement officers to uncuff him.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | Adrian Carrasquillo
THE LOS ANGELES ICE PROTESTS have revealed a little-understood dimension of mass deportation and the social reality of many Hispanic communities. In certain areas, immigrants have become so embedded in the culture that it is only natural for them to fight for the garment workers and day laborers who are their families, friends, and neighbors.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | Lauren Egan |Adrian Carrasquillo
AS THE ICE PROTESTS IN LOS ANGELES morphed into a playground for Donald Trump’s authoritarian fantasies, Democratic party officials watched in horror. They were outraged at Trump’s use of the National Guard, his administration’s callous targeting of immigrant garment workers and day laborers, and his clear desire to stoke chaos and rile up (mostly) peaceful protesters. But they were also concerned about how, or even if, their copartisans would confront Trump over the situation in Los Angeles.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | Adrian Carrasquillo
WHEN JOURNALIST RYANNE MENA TOOK TO THE STREETS of Los Angeles Friday to cover the protests against ICE, she figured she knew what to expect. As a Southern California News Group reporter whose beat includes crime, public safety, and (recently) immigration, Mena had covered her share of protests. She’d never been shot before, however. But as she was covering it all from outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, that’s precisely what happened.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Adrian Carrasquillo
This week on Bulwark on Sunday, Bill Kristol talks with Adrian Carrasquillo about the mass arrests in Southern California, the communities fighting back, and the dangerous precedent of military force in American cities. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members. Don’t care for video? Use the controls on the left side of the player to toggle to audio.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | Adrian Carrasquillo |Andrew Egger
Andrew Egger and Adrian Carrasquillo discuss Adrian’s story on a real family caught in the immigration system, where a sudden ICE raid tore their lives apart, leaving a wife behind to navigate fear, lawyers, and an uncertain future. See the full report and what happened to the family here: Love in the Time of Self-DeportationAs always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members. Don’t care for video?
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3 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Adrian Carrasquillo |Jim Swift
You may think of Donald Trump as a reckless arsonist of federal bureaucracy, but you can’t say the big guy isn’t willing to spend some government dollars when it’s for a good cause. For instance, the Atlantic reports this morning that the Trump Department of Transportation allotted more than $2 million for celebrity defense attorney Alex Spiro to investigate whether DEI policies have been causing planes to crash. (The apparent answer: They haven’t been.
