Post #1972330

2025-01-30 22:57 UTC

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

@MichaelTBacon 🔘 Immigration officers cannot detain anyone without reasonable suspicion, an agent must have specific facts about you that make it reasonable to believe you are committing or committed, a violation of immigration law or federal law. If an agent detains you, you can ask for their basis for reasonable suspicion, and they should tell you. 🔘 Always say no to a search and let everyone know that they can and should refuse consent to a search. 🔘 They cannot search or arrest anyone without facts that make it probable that they are committing, or committed, a violation of immigration law or federal law. 🔘 Silence alone meets neither of these standards. Nor does race or ethnicity alone suffice for either probable cause or reasonable suspicion. -3-

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