California anti-abolitionist activists use sirens and bulls to warn immigrants about immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) operations to stop agents from launching border patrols from the United States
This is because unidentified activists from the Sanctuary State have posted posters featuring personal information from ICE and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers working in the Los Angeles and Southern California regions.
On Thursday, a group of about 10 people met in a parking lot in southern Los Angeles before dawn, spread across five cars and surveyed the streets for ice agents as Associated Press got on together.
Anti-ice activists use sirens and bullhorns to block the ice. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, left, Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images, right.)
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If they find an ice officer, they will achieve records on their mobile phone. They blare the sirens. And through a megaphone, they announce that the ice is nearby. “They're here.”
“We don't use violence. We don't break the law, but we do everything we can legally do to protect our community,” Ron Gosches, founder of the Union Del Barrio's Los Angeles chapter, told the outlet.
Groups also use transceivers to communicate with each other. Activists hope to disrupt and disrupt ice activities as federal agencies seek to chase President Trump's promise of a massive deportation.
In one clip, the woman Lupe Carrasco Cardona, a previously live-streamed clip by the group, records an ice agent near a local target, screaming at her bull that the agent is present.
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Carrasco, a teacher who is a member of the Self-Defense Coalition of the Pro Immigration Group Community, said he wanted to ensure that immigrant families were not separated.
“What we physically do is make noise, and noise just warns us like people in the community that something is happening outside,” Carrasco told the outlet.
“And if you like to knock on doors like ice agents or HSIs, you just look like HSIs, and it reminds people of their rights. And don't talk about the rights, don't open the door and ask for a warrant.”
She said her group is part of a large coalition of 70 organizations across Los Angeles, who say they exercise their freedom of speech and remind people of their rights. Ice officers cannot be forced into the home without a judicial warrant. They have campaigned to encourage people to stay inside and not open the door.
On Thursday, the group met in a parking lot in southern Los Angeles before dawn, then spread out into five cars and surveyed the streets for ice agents as Associated Press got on with them. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
“And just like we're not here, we're not here, anything you know, criminals and stories out there,” Cardona said. “This is about these beautiful people, really, really scary. Their kids are very scary. My students either come to school with anxiety or not at school at all.”
It is unclear how her group is affecting her. Fox News Digital reached out to Ice and his comments.
On Sunday, the Associated Press reported that around 150 volunteers had incited the ice operation in response to rumors.
The news follows activists who featured posters featuring personal information from ICE and Homeland Security Survey (HSI) officers working in the Los Angeles and Southern California regions.
Ron Gosches, a volunteer teacher with Union del Barrio, an immigration rights advocate, is reflected in the side mirrors when searching for ice activities in Los Angeles neighborhoods on Thursday, February 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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A spokesman for the FBI in Los Angeles shared a statement with Fox News, warning that anyone interfering with law enforcement operations could face potential prosecution.
“The FBI protects constitutional rights, including freedom of speech and assembly. However, individuals who interfere with law enforcement work may threaten the safety of law enforcement agents and those subjects of investigation are subject to investigation and potential prosecution by the Department of Justice.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
