Neighbors are standing up for immigrants

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Neighbors are standing up for immigrants
From protests at Home Depot to rapid response networks, 2025 is the year many mobilized to defy Trump — and ICE

By Heather Digby Parton
Columnist
Published December 27, 2025 9:00AM (EST)


(Salon) Everyone who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 knew that he was planning to deport massive numbers of immigrants. Some had, after all, held up pre-printed signs at the Republican National Convention that said “Mass Deportation Now.” The problem was that many voters either didn’t think he meant it, or they assumed it would be an orderly process that booted only the so-called “worst of the worst” who were already under deportation orders.

They were wrong.

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What we have witnessed over the past 11 months has been vile. The federal government has deployed masked, armed men into the streets of American cities to brutalize people with impunity. Thousands of immigrants from Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Asia have been detained and deported, many of them to places where they haven’t lived since they were children — and even some to countries where they have never lived. Families are being separated, communities traumatized and the country is being torn apart, all for the twisted pursuit of an America — white and Christian — that has never existed and cannot function without immigrants.

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But a funny thing happened on the way to the ethnic cleansing party. Many of these “heritage Americans,” along with every other permutation of U.S. citizens, decided to fight back on behalf of their immigrant friends, neighbors and co-workers.

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Across the country, citizens have created “rapid response networks” that track ICE’s movements and alert communities about immigration enforcement. Suburban moms in Illinois created neighborhood watch groups to warn neighbors and schools when masked DHS agents are spotted. Others are putting themselves in the line of fire and enduring rough arrests at protests. As CNN reported, “crowds gather — people come out of their houses, dog walkers pause on their routes, cyclists and drivers make detours — to protest what the agents are doing and remove any element of surprise.” .................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/12/27/neighbors-are-standing-up-for-immigrants/

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1. i've never been so proud to b from chicago.

my hood, rogers park, especially. 1 of the most diverse neighborhoods in the country. i believe the whistle thing started here.

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2. The areas are targeted .. other areas are not targeted.

Beware in both cases.