If you live in the socal area and are/ know someone undocumented please be careful when going to Walmart or to be safe just don’t go in general ICE has been known to go in there
This isn’t information that can sit in your likes guys I’m not trying to guilt trip but this is life or death please reblog and spread
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Those posts going round about Amazon are not hugely accurate – for a start, the dates are like an entire week off (meaning people reading them will end up doing their delayed buying during the actual Spanish walk out), most of those countries in that one list are not involved and half the articles about Spain are from March – but I considered how exhausted arguing about this with a bunch of 20 year olds accusing me of being some kind of Neoliberal Shill for pointing out factual inaccuracies would be and have decided to just scroll past.
There is an anti-Amazon protest happening today but it’s due to them helping ICE and running their ads on Breitbart.
PORTLAND REPORTBACK! When DHS cleared the part of the camp that was blocking the ICE driveway here in Portland last Thursday, they hired a pressure washing company to come wash the chalk messages off the ground. The company showed up, realized they were, in a very tiny way, aiding ICE, and they walked off the job. And then they brought pizza back for the folks in the OccupyICE camp beside the building.
Did refusing to wash away those messages of “Abolish ICE” and “Families belong together” actually make a tangible difference for the currently separated families and the people currently facing deportation? No. But did it encourage and inspire us? Does seeing a company refuse service to ICE make it seem more possible for others to do the same? Yes, absolutely.So refuse to wash the ICE building. Refuse to sell tires to the transportation company that leases the buses to ICE. Refuse to operate the plane flying the children to the camps. Refuse to be part of the system. Don’t just “do your job,” follow your ethics and hang on to your humanity.
The smartest thing to do as a European/Australian/Canadian right not is to assume all posts about stopping ICE are also about you and whatever immigrant detention and deportation is called in your country,.
It doesn’t matter what a deportation camp looks like where you live or
how explicitly right wing the government is. Don’t wait until it’s ‘bad enough’.The time to stop people
from being taken to dangerous places against their will is always NOW.
y’all need to include date/time and look in notes for follow-up before reblogging those posts notifying folks about ICE being in an area.
It’s vitally important information, but becomes virtually meaningless if it’s outdated or if it’s ambiguous as to whether or not it’s outdated. And the ambiguous posts can just add to people living in fear 24/7 when they don’t need to be, or making an area seem unsafe that might at this point be more safe as ICE moves to other areas. Sometimes outdated information is more dangerous than no information.
It’s good to spread the word on ICE presence, but it needs to be spread with proper context to be effective and safe.
If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you
A note:
I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:
Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.
Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.
And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.
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