{"id":391134,"date":"2025-11-20T01:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/391134\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:23:09","slug":"advocates-use-whistles-to-alert-of-ice-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/391134\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocates use whistles to alert of ICE presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you hear the sound of a whistle, it could mean that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The whistles have become the latest tool for immigrant advocates and concerned neighbors to fight back against ICE.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whistles have become the latest tool for immigrant advocates and concerned neighbors to fight back against ICE<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Volunteer patrols have organized themselves into shifts and broken up the neighborhood into zones<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The New York Immigration Coalition posted video of a mother of four children, all U.S. citizens, having their home broken into by ICE agents while sleeping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s three short tweets if ICE is in the neighborhood,\u201d \u201cJune,\u201d who agreed to speak with NY1 if we concealed her identity for fear of retaliation, said. \u201cIt\u2019s three long tweets if they are making an active abduction or one continuous.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, NY1 joined \u201cJune\u201d as she did a patrol in Bushwick. Going block by block on Irving Avenue, June was staying alert while also keeping an eye out for ICE agents.<\/p>\n<p>The volunteer patrols have organized themselves into shifts and broken up the neighborhood into zones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re constantly having to adapt our tactics and protocol as ICE continues to ramp up their abductions in neighborhoods,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The patrols have emerged out of concern over increased immigration raids under President Donald Trump and his border czar Tom Homan, who say they\u2019re trying to root out criminals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re already there now. We have teams there now, but we\u2019re increasing enforcement efforts in New York City,\u201d Homan said Tuesday on Fox.<\/p>\n<p>NY1 didn\u2019t spot any activity on Wednesday, but it was early.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a pattern start to emerge in the last couple of days and a few weeks of them more frequently abducting people at night,\u201d \u201cJune\u201d said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, ICE agents were spotted in the neighborhood. A nighttime patrol caught the moment on video.\u00a0Scenes of ICE officials descending on immigrants have become more common in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have my baby, no,\u201d the mother in a video posted by the New York Immigration Colation said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I\u2019m going to get you by your baby,\u201d the ICE agent responded.<\/p>\n<p>The mother was shouting out in fear after being surrounded by ICE agents last week when she had been home asleep with her four children.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Immigration Coalition says no one was hurt or arrested.<\/p>\n<p>NY1 has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment on all the recent enforcement actions in the city and has not heard back.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, some New Yorkers aren\u2019t waiting to see what happens next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery single person needs to be asking themselves the question of \u2018what am I willing to do to protect the people who live next door to me and make the city run every single day?\u2019\u201d \u201cJune\u201d said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you hear the sound of a whistle, it could mean that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":391135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13565,7448,86109,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,43431,5227,80,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-391134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-kelly-mena","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115579414461132088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}