We are experiencing a serious ICE surge in the Bay Area.
While San Francisco proper has not had a large rise in activity, Alameda and Contra Costa County have seen serious escalations. We’ve seen over a dozen neighbors abducted in the past couple days, with confirmed sightings of ICE at schools, Santa Rita jail, and more.
Now that Stephen Miller has been elevated to Trump’s chief of staff, we are expecting that the Trump administration will double down on cruelty.
We don’t know if or when the ICE surge will impact San Francisco, but we need you to be ready and trained before it happens.
Here’s what you can do right now:
Put the rapid response hotline number 415-200-1548 in your contacts. If you personally witness an ICE abduction in San Francisco, call this number immediately. It’s run by the San Francisco Immigrant Legal and Education Network, which is a partner organization that provides legal counsel to victims of ICE abductions. If you witness an abduction in another county, there will be a different hotline for that county: https://www.ccijustice.org/carrn
Join Adopt-A-Corner, the hyperlocal ICE watch network that a lot of us already participate in. The best way to protect your community is by getting to know your neighbors and working with them on a regular basis, keeping an eye on your immediate surroundings and knowing who to spread information to
Sign up for an SF Street Monitors training at https://rebrand.ly/sfnews4sm
Donate to the legal fees of abducted neighbor Jesus Cartruita, a connection of one of our Indivisible friends in San Mateo.
Donate to SF’s local Immigration Emergency Relief Fund run by our friends at CANA. They’ve raised over $10,000 so far, but the need continues. Anecdotally from our networks, the Bay Area averages as many as six ICE kidnappings a week—some of whom are breadwinners whose families will need assistance to survive.
For more you can do to stop ICE, see our webpage at https://indivisiblesf.org/ice.
We are looking for more volunteers for our immigration rights team here at Indivisible SF. Your role will involve liaising with other immigration-centric orgs in the city, like Jobs With Justice, Nuevo Sol, Faith In Action Bay Area, RUTA, and more. Your responsibilities would be to pass on events and calls to action put out by those organizations to our team.
If you would like to get involved, please email us at info@indivisisblesf.org.