Highland Park Groups use sirens and whistles to warn of ICE
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A group in a Los Angeles neighborhood is using sirens to warn residents and business owners of federal immigration authorities.
The Highland Park Community Support group, a coalition of community members, crowdfunded to raise funds to purchase air raid sirens.
“We eventually want to get this done on all the different streets, so they can take shelter,” said Amanda Alcalde, who created the group. KTLA. “I saw a lot of fear in people’s eyes. I don’t see many of our ethnic minorities out and about day in and day out. It’s a big change. It feels dystopian in a way.”
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Sunlight seen from a rooftop on Spring Street on September 10, 1996 illuminates Bunker Hill and Los Angeles’ financial district after a morning shower. (Ken Lubas/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Alcalde posted fliers warning neighbors about the sirens and hopes to begin installing them later this month, the news outlet reported.
In addition to the advocacy group, Fox News Digital also reached out to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.
Organizers told the news outlet they were working with homeowners and businesses to have the sirens placed on private property rather than city-owned areas.
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View of an off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent and a Los Angeles street. A group in a Los Angeles neighborhood is reportedly crowdfunding to install sirens to alert ICE agents in the area. (Philip A. Dwyer/Bellingham Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images and Google Maps)
They were inspired by anti-ICE agitators in Minneapolis; these confronted federal authorities targeting criminal illegal immigrants in that city.
Volunteers distributed ICE warning whistles on the street, encouraging residents to warn each other when enforcement activity was observed.
“We are not directly involving ourselves with ICE, but we will be involved in protecting the community from remaining in their offices or homes,” activist David Trujillo told the press.
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Meanwhile. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass recently issued an executive order to reduce ICE activity on city properties.
