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How Do We Break Through? Carlos Eduardo Espina on Immigration, Identity, and Social Media

How Do We Break Through? Carlos Eduardo Espina on Immigration, Identity, and Social Media

Update: 2025-10-21
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Carlos Eduardo Espina, attorney, immigrant-rights advocate, and Spanish-language creator with nearly 20 million followers, joins The People’s Cabinet to trace his family’s journey from Mexico to Texas, how writing thousands of letters to ICE detainees led him into activism, and why Latino voters shifted right in 2024. 

Espina talks to Dan Koh about:

  • Building a Spanish-first audience across social media
  • Nostalgia for pre-pandemic life and how Democratic blind spots pushed many Latinos toward Trump
  • Why we should expand legal work pathways and humanitarian programs while addressing the millions already here
  • Why creators must own their bias, collaborate with legacy outlets, and what he learned speaking at the DNC

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How Do We Break Through? Carlos Eduardo Espina on Immigration, Identity, and Social Media

How Do We Break Through? Carlos Eduardo Espina on Immigration, Identity, and Social Media

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