r/WeThePeopleAtWhipple

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The term describes a protest tactic in which U.S. citizens display Mexican flags, bumper stickers or other Mexican imagery on their vehicles with the intention of attracting the attention of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

The idea is relatively simple: draw the attention of immigration agents toward someone who is actually a U.S. citizen, potentially wasting agents' time and diverting their attention from immigrants.

Supporters of the concept argue that displaying a Mexican flag or Mexican imagery is protected expression and view the tactic as a way to challenge potential racial profiling.

Critics could argue that deliberately attempting to attract or distract federal agents is provocative and could create unnecessary encounters.

The phrase "ICE fishing" has now become part of the larger online conversation surrounding immigration enforcement, protests and how Americans are responding to increased ICE activity.

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Are you seeing this???

Our children are suffering. 💔

New Nissan Pathfinders with stickers in the windows and no license plates were dropped off in South lot at the Whipple federal building today, 10/8/26.
Tap into your local rapid response groups and keep your eyes out. Another MN ICE surge was announced recently.

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there is a particular kind of trauma that comes from watching your own communities, be targeted, criminalized, separated, and dehumanized. You do not have to be the person detained to feel the psychological impact of this violence. Our bodies carry histories of displacement, racial oppression, and generational wounds. And what we witnessed today can reopen those wounds. Our communities deserve safety, dignity, liberation. Our children deserve to grow up without fear. Our humanity is not up for negotiation.

And to ICE agents of color/global majority: Your uniform does not exempt you from racism. Your badge does not erase your ancestry. And your proximity to institutional power does not guarantee your protection from the very systems you help uphold.

- Natalie

Status Coup's @jonfarina spoke with Kristianna @kristianna_bby, who was recently hit by an ICE agent's SUV. Despite suffering a broken leg, she traveled to the New Jersey State House to challenge state leadership on the human rights abuses occurring inside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center.

Video by @sylentword9

Last Wednesday, 9/23, ICE injured a man they were trying to abduct, resulting in needing ambulance transport for him to Jersey City Medical Center (@jcmedcenter ) At the ER, agents posed as police to try and gain access inside. Throughout the entire ordeal, Jersey City
PD assisted ICE and escorted them demonstrating clear collaboration.
ICE is not welcome in our neighborhoods or our hospitals.
Every day, they endanger our communities with their reckless and violent behavior.
Do not stay silent. Your neighbors are being chased, hunted and dehumanized.