As immigration enforcement increases in the city, some community members want to better document the activities of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
Comité Sin Fronteras, an arm of Voces de la Frontera, is training people to serve as “community verifiers” – who confirm or deny reports of ICE actions and document incidents when they do happen.
A key element of the project, dubbed, “La Migra Watch,” is to raise awareness about the hotline anyone can use to report possible ICE activity, said Raul Rios, an organizer with Comité.
“That is how, statewide, we can get involved and get on the ground to help each other,” Rios said.
In this video, Rios explains how the verification process works, and we follow a verifier after a call to the hotline is made.
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