former software exec Neville Roy Singham<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe People\u2019s Forum anti-ICE event Midtown attracted about 200 people. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
Soto instructed attendees not to back down.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow\u00a0they\u2019ll\u00a0say,\u00a0\u2018Get\u00a0the\u00a0f\u2013k\u00a0out\u00a0of\u00a0my\u00a0face.\u2019\u00a0And\u00a0what\u00a0you\u00a0say, \u2018I\u00a0am\u00a0not\u00a0intervening\u00a0in\u00a0this\u00a0action. I\u00a0am\u00a0a\u00a0legal\u00a0observer,’\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Soto also told activists to use encrypted Signal group chats with \u201cneutral titles\u201d to make a rotating schedule that ensures a team member will be at each site most of the day in anticipation of an ICE raid.<\/p>\n
Soto admitted the tactics are risky. Caleb (Cal) Soto\/ Linkedin<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of times it\u2019s been really fast \u2014 like 15 minutes, if that, in and out. And it\u2019s really hard if you\u2019re not there already to actually respond,\u201d advised Soto.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we don\u2019t have those roles prepared, we\u2019re going to be caught in chaos, and they thrive off of that chaos, but they fail when we\u2019re organized,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The tactics have been used by the Los Angeles chapter of the DSA since June, one of its leaders told a \u201cSolidarity Melts ICE\u201d mass call Tuesday night, attended by far-left Astoria Councilmember Tiffany Caban.<\/p>\n
For decades, migrants have lined up at or near Home Depot parking lots in hopes of finding construction work. Aristide Economopoulos<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of f\u2013kery that goes on with that group,\u201d blasted Thomas Malone, a San Fernando Valley DSA leader, referring to ICE agents.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat you\u2019ll often find is that their vehicles do not have license plates, or they have the same license plates matched across six vehicles, or they have out of country license plates.\u201d<\/p>\n
California\u2019s anti-ICE tag teams, euphemistically called \u201cCommunity Defense Patrols,\u201d have been going to Home Depot parking lots across Los Angeles, Orange County, Long Beach and San Diego, starting at 6am, Malone said.<\/p>\n
ICE agents have conducted raids on Home Depot parking lots on the West Coast, arresting dozens. Matt Finn\/ X<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve been handing out \u201ccare packages\u201d that include red \u201cknow your rights\u201d cards as they wait for federal agents to show up. <\/p>\n
Over the past months, ICE has conducted raids on the hardware chain at locations across Tinseltown, leading to clashes with protesters.<\/p>\n
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For decades, undocumented workers have gathered in Home Depot parking lots across the United States in search of contractors or homeowners to hire them off the books for day labor \u2013 a practice known as \u201cshaping up.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s turned the nation\u2019s largest home improvement store into a deportation hotspot, resulting in dozens detained since the summer.<\/p>\n
The hardware chain has found itself thrust in the ICE controversy. REUTERS<\/p>\n
Malone said the Los Angeles DSA and other activists have been patrolling Home Depot parking lots since June. Thomas Malone\/ LinkedIn<\/p>\n
In one raid on a Sacramento Home Depot in June, five of the 11 migrants arrested had criminal histories, according to Border Patrol officials. They included Carlos Mata, a convicted sex offender who broke into a nearby apartment and assaulted someone as he attempted to flee ICE.<\/p>\n
ICE has more than doubled its headcount in the past year, as agents descend on cities for large-scale operations to arrest migrants convicted of crimes or living in the US without legal status.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the NYC DSA has been mustering an army of 4,000 anti-ICE crusaders ahead of an expected imminent crackdown on the Big Apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They\u2019re California schemin\u2019! New York City socialists are importing even more aggressive tactics from their comrades on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2136,1091,48307,2035,3410,2301,1016,3411,9,56,63,65,64,10582,54739,58],"class_list":["post-126296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-california","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-home-depot","tag-ice","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-los-angeles","tag-migrants","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-raids","tag-rapid","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}