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2025-01-30 22:56 UTC

@MichaelTBacon 1. Know your rights: Link to the ACLU website (they also sell wallet cards in multiple languages. Spanish is sold out right now) WHAT TO DO AT AN ICE CHECKPOINT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE WHITE and/or FEEL THE NEED TO JAM UP THE WORKS. Here's the deal: 🔘 Border Patrol can verify citizenship within 100 miles of a border or "external boundary." This includes coastlines, so NYC, Philadelphia, and all of NJ are within the 100-mile zone. 🔘 Border patrol can only ask brief questions about citizenship, and they cannot hold you for an extended time without cause. 🔘 You always have the right to remain silent. You do not need to answer their questions. 🔘 WITH THAT SAID, IF YOU ARE A BORN CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES AND ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE WHITE, YOU NEED TO SPEAK THE FUCK UP.

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@orrickle@sfba.social 2025-01-30 22:57

@MichaelTBacon 2- 🔘 The most important acts of resistance are the small ones. Make it difficult and uncomfortable for ICE agents to do their jobs. They are counting on citizens to turn a blind eye and allow them to deport undocumented citizens without challenge. Disabuse them of that notion. 🔘 If you are on a train, bus, or anything else and ICE or CBP boards, you need to stand up and loudly let everyone know that they have the right to remain silent or only answer questions in the presence of an attorney, no matter their citizenship or immigration status. There have been numerous reports that confronting the agents in this way has caused them to leave without verifying citizenship. THIS CAN SAVE LIVES. 🙌 🔘 If you see anyone being held up by immigration, loudly ask if they are being detained and if they are free to go. -2-

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