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How Volunteer Patrols Are Working to Protect San Diego Immigrant Communities From ICE

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250430113743/https://boltsmag.org/how-volunteer-patrols-are-working-to-protect-san-diego-immigrant-communities-from-ice/

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Starting to sound like a well regulated militia. 🤭
- Just need some Toyota trucks and 50 cal guns.
Labeling your vehicles or wearing uniforms seems ill-advised, since the regime is chomping at the bit to imprison people who aid and abet immigrants. Do your work as incognito as possible.
- From an individual risk perspective, sure. But from a collective perspective, you want the defiance to be as public as possible to inspire others.
  
  From a collective perspective, you can't be of much help if you're in ICE detention.
- Nah
  We need to be visible.
  Enough of us need to be outspoken to drown out the fascists.
  If they come for you scream for help to your community and the news, if necessary kill as many as you can before they kill you.
  This is where the political climate is at now.
The other day I was thinking back to the days of gamergate. In how suddenly a hobby and community I loved and always had considered left leaning since the days of Atari. Very quickly adopted and accepted toxic masculinity and the alt right.
and how they were quick to name anyone who wasn't on their side white knights but in a derogatory way.
As a 47 year old white male, I couldn't be happier to be a white knight. And I've been thinking if a website of volunteers across the country could work. who could assemble to help those in distress, be it immigrants, women, trans at
Ice shows up and someone calls out for help, we could show up to document what ice does. A woman doesn't feel safe at a bar or restaurant, puts location out dudes show up to make sure she gets home safe. Idk probably a dumb idea but it's been eating at me.

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