Romero is part of a coalition of trained volunteers called Unión del Barrio, who patrol the barrios, or neighbourhoods, to look for immigration enforcement, “La Migra”. When they spot Ice activity, they post videos that go viral, alerting people to seek shelter. Since June, Unión del Barrio volunteers have been patrolling Terminal Island, where they say federal immigration agents have been staging enforcement operations. Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other agencies arrive here early in the morning, Romero said, before being dispatched to conduct raids across southern California. “They’re clocking in to go kidnap people. They see us, they flip us off.”

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  • 2 comments in c/california@lemmy.world view that post
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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Death to ICE

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  • 1 comment in c/theguardian_us@ibbit.at view that post
    [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    It bears repeating Everytime...

    The Los Angeles patrols date back to 1992, after the riots that erupted when officers were acquitted of brutally beating Rodney King

    It was a peaceful protest, but it was in "white neighborhoods", so the cops kettled them and instigated violence. They literally beat the protesters back out of the white areas to the nearest minority area, with was K-town.

    Once the protesters were riled up and away from white people, the police, fire, and medical emergency services refused to respond to any are that wasn't a white neighborhood. And you're probably think I meant that in the moment, they refused to respond for days.

    Because the protestors had a point and this would make the American public not listen to them.

    For some reason that bit isn't common knowledge yet.

    Despite cities/cops still using this exact strategy.

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