Activists in Los Angeles are posting the names, photos and personal information of ICE agents — and are warning neighborhoods about impending raids, federal sources said.
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramps up deportation efforts of illegal migrants in Southern California, flyers with photos of agents’ faces have appeared with claims that they “racially terrorize” local communities, agency sources told The Post.
“CAREFUL WITH THESE FACES,” the flyers say, in Spanish. “They kidnap people from their homes and the streets, separating families and tearing apart communities. Many people have died while locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers.”
Flyers showing the names, pictures, and phone numbers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have surfaced in a Southern California neighborhood. U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementThe Department of Homeland Security was quick to hit back at the efforts of activists, saying they endangered the lives of law enforcement officers who are carrying out their duties.
“These pathetic activists are putting targets on the backs of our law enforcement as they shield MS-13, Tren De Aragua and other vicious gangs that traffic women and children, kidnap for ransom and poison Americans with lethal drugs,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told Fox News.
An ICE source told The Post, ““The administration needs to be more aggressive about these groups, which are putting agents’ safety in jeopardy.”
The posters, which were written in Spanish, translate roughly to read “CAREFUL WITH THESE FACES.” APIt’s unknown posted the flyers, but anti-ICE activists have hit the streets in force since an agency leak revealed plans for a citywide deportation blitz at the end of this month.
Activists have been patrolling migrant neighborhoods on the lookout for ICE agents and warning locals of impending sweeps.
Ron Gochez of grassroots activist group Unión del Barrio told Spectrum News that a force of around 150 volunteers have been “combing the streets of Los Angeles, looking for any ICE activity” and claimed that his group thwarted at least two raids last week.
“We alert people with megaphones. That works. The megaphones wake up the people, they let them know what’s happening,” Gochez told the outlet.
Unión del Barrio is just one of more than 50 activist groups within the “Community Self-Defense Coalition.”
That coalition has worked to block federal operations for years, yet as ICE brings President Donald Trump’s deportation raids to the City of Angels, the agency will have no shortage of targets.
Los Angeles County hosts more than 800,000 “undocumented” migrants, and where one in five Angelenos are either undocumented or live with someone who is, according to county data.
