Protest and Monitor ICE
ice is our gestapo
The Trump Administration’s efforts to target immigrants go beyond lawful immigration enforcement.
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Actions to Take right Now:
Protest & Document ICE at the Federal Building.
Why?
ICE kidnaps our neighbors from the Federal Building when they go in for regular immigration check-in appointments. If an observer can get a picture and/or a name of the individual being kidnapped to immigration lawyers QUICKLY, sometimes victims get released instead of deported. This has happened in Eugene. YOUR presence and willingness can be the difference.
Monitor, Report, & respond to ICE activity in your COmmunity.
Community Patrolling & Reporting ICE
Sign up for an upcoming Migra Watch training with Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC) to learn how to safely and effectively observe and report immigration activity in your neighborhood.
Save the PIRC ICE Hotline number in your phone and call if you see ICE nearby - 1-888-622-1510. Send videos of ICE activity to PIRCPDX@gmail.com.
Learn how to spot ICE agents, report them, and warn your community for a rapid response:
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Neighborhood Defense
To get plugged into your local neighborhood defense network, attend a Eugene Housing And Neighborhood Defense (HAND) meeting. The group meets the first Tuesday of every month at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Eugene (1685 W 13th Ave) @ 6:30PM-8:30PM.
Join or Donate to the organizations keeping our neighbors safe
To support immigrant rights and advocacy here in Oregon over the longer term, you can also get involved with the following organizations:
Springfield Alliance for Equity and Respect (SAfER) - DONATE (Scroll down and be sure select "SAfER" from the "Designation" drop-down menu)
Know Your Rights When Documenting Federal Law Enforcement
While the right to document and record law enforcement and federal agents is protected by the Constitution, we're all too aware that our constitutionally protected rights have been disregarded and violated in the past. Some officers retaliate by making threats, spraying chemical irritants, and arresting people recording them. For that reason, it's important to understand your rights.
Your Rights
First Amendment protects photographing/videoing law enforcement in public (ICE, police, DHS, etc.)
Officers need a warrant to confiscate your device or view contents if you're not arrested
Even if arrested, officers need a warrant to search your phone's contents
Government may never lawfully delete your photos/videos under any circumstances
Best Practices When Recording
Capture agents face, uniform, weapons, etc.
Capture images of community member being kidnapped
Share documentation with impacted person's attorney or local organizations who may be able to help identify the community member
If Stopped or Arrested
Remain calm; never physically resist
Ask: "Am I free to leave?" If yes, walk away calmly
Law enforcement needs reasonable suspicion to detain you
If arrested: you have the right to remain silent and request a lawyer. At most, provide your name and date of birth. Anything more than that? SHUT IT!
These rights apply regardless of citizenship or immigration status
Background
Immigrants in America are being abducted by ICE, often while lawfully attending immigration court hearings, and often without warrants. ICE is breaking our 4th Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure when they force their way into homes without judicial warrants, and pull people over purely based on the color of their skin. Many who are abducted are being denied their Constitutional right to due process. They are being sent to prisons with inhumane conditions, sometimes in countries far away from their countries of origin.
Court rulings have shot down this illegal, immoral treatment of human beings, but the Federal Government is appealing those rulings and doing it anyway. Congress is doing nothing to stop it from happening, so it’s up to us to do everything we can to stop them. “Living in the U.S. without legal authorization (unlawful presence) is a civil offense,” NOT A CRIMINAL OFFENSE. (source) What this regime is doing with their ICE agents in OUR STREETS is meant to be cruel, hostile, and inhumane to feed the narrative that they’re detaining and deporting criminals. The cruelty is the point.
REMEMBER: Billionaires want the public to believe that immigrants, or anyone who’s non-white, are the ones ruining our economy and making our lives less safe. They want people to believe that immigrants are hoarding our tax dollars, stealing our jobs, and milking our social assistance systems, making it hard for ALL OF US to get by. Never forget: our economic struggles exist because the billionaire class exists. They want the Class War to be a Race War, as usual.