Stop, Block, Drive Out ICE
- Build community, student, and worker defense guards to defend your neighbors, classmates, co-workers
- Trump’s fascist presidency is illegitimate! ICE is an illegitimate Gestapo force! Defeat Trump and his fascist movement the L.A. way!
- Only our independent movement can make our city a real sanctuary by making it safe for immigrants and unsafe for ICE kidnappers
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Prepare Your Community Against ICE:
1. Organize your street, school, church, mosque, synagogue, or union to be a center of the movement’s new Underground Railroad. Prepare and organize community self-defense guard networks. Create a phone tree and use social media with your neighbors, classmates, friends and coworkers to mass text and call in an emergency in case ICE or Immigration comes to your house, your neighborhood, workplace, school, hospital, courts or other public settings, or if ICE tries to set a street checkpoint.
2. We cannot rely on lawyers and politicians, we must mobilize our own collective power to defend ourselves and each other. Know your rights but know that ICE does not respect them. They will violate the law and the Constitution if they can get away with it.
3. If ICE comes to your house, apartment building or complex, DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR FOR ICE! Alert neighbors who are vulnerable to stay inside. People who have legal status: COME OUT TO DEFEND YOUR NEIGHBORS. In Bell, CA and other parts of L.A. since June 6, community members have confronted ICE agents and driven them out.
4. If you know you are facing deportation, if ICE is looking for you, take sanctuary in a church or other sanctuary. Make sure to organize a community defense guard to stop ICE from entering.
5. If you see ICE, Don’t Walk on By: Stop to take a picture and/or video, send it to BAMN and call us, post it on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Snapchat, etc.) with the address, time, place, and any other relevant details, and invite people to join you right away. Call your friends, neighbors, coworkers, classmates, and family members who are safe to come out to disrupt and obstruct ICE activities.
—bring out signs, noise makers or other helpful tools
—block the road if there’s a checkpoint to prevent ICE from stopping cars—form a defense line to block the entrance to the apartment complex, house, school, or workplace to deny access to ICE into the area where immigrants might be
—take collective action to surround their vehicles if they have already arrested the person or group of people
—Call news media to cover the incident. Ask someone in the crowd to film and share the ongoing incident live.
6.Students and teachers: prepare a protocol for what to do if ICE comes to your school. At Berkeley High School in Berkeley, CA, students created a protocol of amassing in the school courtyard and surrounding the undocumented students. If ICE asks for someone by name, every student raises their hand to say they are that person. Have a phone tree to alert parents if ICE is nearby and have a list of volunteers who can take kids home from school if it’s unsafe for undocumented parents to come to the school. At businesses and workplaces, employees, managers and customers should refuse to let ICE in and not give ICE any employee records or information.
7. If you are put on a commercial flight to be deported, make a scene and alert the other passengers, pilots and flight crew that you are being deported. In April 2019, Oliver Awshana heroically fought and stopped his own deportation when ICE agents attempted to force him onto a plane to Iraq. He protested, fought and screamed that he was being deported to his death, as a group of ICE officers and police brutalized and threatened him with tasers. When the pilot saw this, he refused to fly with him on the plane. Increasingly, there have been people prepared to take action to stop deportations in their tracks, pilots refusing to fly, flight attendants refusing to work, passengers on planes refusing to sit down and put on their seatbelts.
8. If you or someone you know is detained by ICE, DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING without speaking to an attorney. Organize public campaigns, pickets, rallies at court hearings, at detention facilities, call media to cover it.
9. Join BAMN. Contact us to attend our next meeting and/or to form a BAMN chapter in your neighborhood, school, college or university; to form a caucus in your workplace; or to affiliate your club or organization with BAMN.
