Protest and Monitor ICE
Actions to Take right Now:
Protest & document ICE at the Federal Building.
Why?
ICE kidnaps our neighbors from the Federal Building when they go in for regular immigration check-in appointments. If an observer can get a picture and/or a name of the individual being kidnapped to immigration lawyers QUICKLY, sometimes victims get released instead of deported. This has happened in Eugene. YOUR presence and willingness can be the difference.
Here is the current schedule for ICE protests in Eugene, EVERY WEEK:
All of these events are happening at the Eugene Federal Building: 211 E 7th Avenue, Eugene, OR.
Monitor, Report, & respond to ICE activity in your Community.
Community Patrolling & Reporting ICE
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Neighborhood Defense
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Know Your Rights When Documenting Law Enforcement.
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While the right to document and record law enforcement and federal agents is protected by the Constitution, we’re all too aware that our constitutionally protected rights have been disregarded and violated in the past. Some officers retaliate by making threats, spraying chemical irritants, and arresting people recording them. For that reason, it’s important to understand your rights.
Your Rights:
Best Practices When Recording:
If Stopped by Law Enforcement:
If you are arrested:
These rights apply regardless of citizenship or immigration status.
You can learn more about your rights, and what to do if you are stopped or arrested, at the ACLU Oregon website.
Background
Immigrants in America are being abducted by ICE, often while lawfully attending immigration court hearings, and often without warrants. ICE is breaking our 4th Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure when they force their way into homes without judicial warrants, and pull people over purely based on the color of their skin. Many who are abducted are being denied their Constitutional right to due process. They are being sent to prisons with inhumane conditions, sometimes in countries far away from their countries of origin.
Court rulings have shot down this illegal, immoral treatment of human beings, but the Federal Government is appealing those rulings and doing it anyway. Congress is doing nothing to stop it from happening, so it’s up to us to do everything we can to stop them. “Living in the U.S. without legal authorization (unlawful presence) is a civil offense,” NOT A CRIMINAL OFFENSE. (source) What this regime is doing with their ICE agents in OUR STREETS is meant to be cruel, hostile, and inhumane to feed the narrative that they’re detaining and deporting criminals. The cruelty is the point.
REMEMBER: Billionaires want the public to believe that immigrants, or anyone who’s non-white, are the ones ruining our economy and making our lives less safe. They want people to believe that immigrants are hoarding our tax dollars, stealing our jobs, and milking our social assistance systems, making it hard for all of us to get by. Never forget: our economic struggles exist because the Billionaire class exists. They want the Class War to be a Race War, as usual.