No ICE

Community organizing page

Update 11/22: Multiple sources report that ICE has left the triangle. However the DHS has said that their operations in NC are not over. This is just the first wave threatening our community. We must stay ready.

If you have organizing info for me to add - email me at durhamresist@gmail.com or chat me on signal checksunshine.12

This page focuses on the hispanic/latine community in Durham, however I know that ALL immigrants of any status and ethnic background, and even citizens, are at risk from ICE

Scroll down for info about:

Track & Warn, Support your neighbors, Community Groups, Gather Protest & Train, Neighborhood patrols, Go after ICE, Keep organizing

Track & Warn

  • Call or text the Siembra hotline if you see possible ICE activity - (336)-543-0353.

    • Add this number to your phone contacts.

    • Give them info in the SALUTE format - Size of group, Activity of group, Location (exact), Uniforms/Units, Time, Equipment (weapons, dogs, SUVs, etc)

    • You can send them photos/videos

    • Bilingual? Volunteer to take a shift manning the hotline. Contact hola@siembranc.org

  • Carry a whistle to blow if you see ICE, to warn people in the surrounding area

  • If you are witnessing ICE activity, take photos and/or record.

    • Check out this video on safe recording practices.

    • Immediately after you stop taking photos or recording, email them to yourself or send them to a trusted friend so there is a backup in case ICE illegally pressures/forces you to delete them

  • If you feel safe to do so, engage your power as a bystander to interfere with ICE activities through distracting, delaying, documenting.

  • If you witness something, submit a rights violation to the ACLU, or if the victim is a student the Education Justice Alliance.

Support your neighbors

  • Reach out to people you know and ask if they want someone to drive them, someone to run errands for them, to pick up their groceries. Text people. Talk to people.

    • Friends, neighbors, people who have worked in your home (ex: landscapers, cleaners), people at your work, people at your child’s daycare or school, people you know through activities/clubs/businesses you frequent

  • Donate groceries/supplies to the Solidarity Supply or donate money to buy them through the Durham Community Food & Resource Distribution

  • Have a child in school? Be available to the other parents, watch out for each other, and be ready to document any ICE activity at drop offs and pick ups.

  • Own a business? Protect your customers and workers from ICE by requesting a Siembra 4th amendment toolkit here. While you wait for a response from them, check out this employers guide from National Immigration Law Center.

  • Put up signs! At your home, your workplace, bring to a school or a protest. Local small business Foolery is providing free signs and will even deliver them to you! Can download and print a simple sign here,

  • Resources for churches here from the Western NC Methodist Church and from the ACLU

Community groups:

Consider donating money or volunteering to help with their efforts.

El Centro Hispano - website

Siembra NC - website

NC Immigrant Solidarity Fund - website

Triangle Mutual Aid - website

Emmanuel Food Pantry - need volunteers - website

Compare Foods - delivering groceris - news article

Southern Vision Alliance - website

Enlace Latino - spanish language newspaper - website

Gather, Protest & Train

Keep standing up against our government’s fascist policies and leadership! This can include protesting, joining positive community efforts, helping register voters — check out this calendar of local activist events.

Seek out opportunities for training, and learning, and getting involved! They are out there for you. Contact community groups listed above to become a member. Sign up for their newsletters. Follow their facebook groups, substacks. Reach out to your friends and your networks.

Neighborhood patrols

Document and/or safely &. legally disrupt ICE operations. We heard testimony from several people that all it took to dissuade ICE from grabbing someone was the presence of a group of people standing between them and the target.

Watch a training video from the Immigrant Defense Project

Siembra NC - sign up to be assigned coordinated patrols to vulnerable neighborhoods.

Triangle Area Safety Patrol signal groups, organized by area. There are zone leads in each group who are coordinating in-person orientations so you can get brought into a dispatch team as soon as possible.

Self-organized community patrols

  • Reach out to your friends and self-organize into groups

  • Bring whistles, fully charged phones

  • Go to neighborhoods most likely to be targeted.

Yellow = majority hispanic

Check out this zoomable map to identify neighborhoods that are majority Hispanic.

Go after ICE

Refuse to serve ICE agents! Own a business? Work in the service industry? Refuse them service. Don’t let them use your bathroom. Make their lives as difficult as possible (safely and legally).

ICE office in Cary, at 140 Centrewest Ct.

  • Monitor activity. Protest. Be safe/legal.

  • This location has been scrubbed from google maps! See photo for a screenshot I took a few months ago.

Need legal representation if you’re arrested during a protest or ICE interaction? Contact the National Lawyers Guild at northcarolina@nlg.org or call 919-627-7483

Keep organizing!

Show up for our neighbors linkstree of resources

An FAQ for how to get involved, get trained, and connect with community organizations.

  • You can add your own resources to this in realtime! It is a publicly available document that anyone can edit.

Have a resource to add? Are you an organizer? Email me! durhamresist@gmail.com