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How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood (www.teenvogue.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 195 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Holy shit. Teen Vogue FTW.

They're not even fucking around about it, either.

After we began offering trainings in immigrant neighborhood parking lots and circulating Spanish-language videos with tips for how to spot ICE agents, our volunteers came into contact with federal agents. After a volunteer confirmed an officer’s identity, they would alert neighbors to the agent’s presence, and our dispatch team would send a text message to our contacts in the area. ICE agents almost never carry judicial warrants giving them the authority to enter private homes or businesses without permission, so they often wait to make an arrest when the person they’re looking for leaves their home or car. And in every case we worked on, when the agents realized they were being watched, they abandoned their stakeout.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Teen Vogue has been woke since Bush Jr. was in office, IIRC. I say this as a complement!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Teen Vogue have always been like this, suprisingly.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago

Pretty decent article. Hat's off to Teen Vogue.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Incredible article, thank you so much for sharing

I know no one wants to interact with Instagram but the embedded Instagram videos were excellent. I wish there had been a bit more of the actual content on how to identify ice in the article though

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Not to further shit on their good intentions, but this really pisses me off too:

We have listed some tips for anyone who wants to start a hotline, neighborhood watch, or cash-assistance program in our organizing playbook.

But if you actually intend on viewing that "organizing playbook" they have a mandatory form asking for:

  • First and last name
  • Mobile phone number
  • Opt-in for email and/or phone updates

And requiring:

  • Email address
  • Zip code
  • Latino YES/NO?

For someone interested in wanting to help, but not wanting to be consolidated into another helpful list of combatants or targets a subpoena away, this seems needlessly restrictive.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The playbook is in the inbox of [email protected], feel free to login and download.

Collecting your name, email, number, etc is how they build the network that has given them some successes so far. I get where you're coming from, though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Thats a consideration I hadn't thought of, but yeah that seems like a potential oversight on their part

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As long as you use an email that's not tied to you and provide fake info, there's no/minimal risk. Stupid as shit that we have to go to these lengths, but here wa are...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Maybe someone could re-upload them on Loops or Peertube to share here?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago

Teen Vogue is off the charts badass, and has been for a bit.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Fucking teen vogue

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Teen Vogue has been woke since Bush Jr. was in office, IIRC. I say this as a complement!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Well, it's not going to be Bloomberg writing these

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You took the exact words outta my mouth.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

A Mexican joint near me just got raided by ICE. My city is nowhere close to the border and has a small migrant community. Defo a bad sign, I didn’t even know ICE existed where I live.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Related:

https://ossiana.substack.com/p/what-to-do-when-you-see-ice-agents

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Ah, GeStaPo watch!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Does anybody know any good resources to get involved in watches against ICE like the article suggests?

I looked for it for my town and only found the address for the local ICE headquarters.