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The chairs of the Congressional Tri-Caucus—Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chair Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), and Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.)—on Tuesday led a letter urging senators to reject the rescissions bill due to CPB cuts.

More than a dozen members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus signed a letter demanding answers in the death of Brownsville sailor Angelina Resendiz, whose body was found last month in Virginia.

“No hay nada más antiamericano que oponerse a darle oportunidades a todo. Los ataques de esta administración en contra de los esfuerzos DEIA delatan su ideología enfermiza. Actúan como si, para que unos tengan éxito, otros deben fracasar”, indicó el presidente del Caucus Hispano del Congreso, Adriano Espaillat (Nueva York), de origen dominicano.

More than 90 Democratic lawmakers filed a brief with a federal court this week telling it to block an agreement between the IRS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that would give the agency access to private taxpayer data.

“Desde su designación inicial en 1999, el TPS para Nicaragua se prorrogó 13 veces consecutivas (por períodos de 12 o 18 meses cada vez) bajo la misma base estatutaria de desastre ambiental”, detalla el documento.

“If you uphold the peace of a democratic society, you should not be anonymous,” said Espaillat, who serves as the Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair. “DHS and ICE agents wearing masks and hiding identification echoes the tactics of secret police authoritarian regimes—and deviates from the practices of local law enforcement, which contributes to confusion in communities.”