The ACILEP Hotline is open and taking calls! If you are in Alameda County and witness Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in action, suspect ICE activity in progress, or if you or someone you know is detained by ICE, please contact the Hotline at (510) 241-4011 during the operating hours of 6AM - 6PM. Priority will be given to calls related to ICE arrests.
We need the people to be organized and be able to respond to raids. How can we get word out en masse to be able to respond at a moment’s notice?
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Start a telegram chat or signal chat. Handful of trusted admin ONLY or else it will very quickly spiral and / or be infiltrated by the right and become useless. Hit me up in the PMs
What is even the point of paying the county sales tax if we only man a hotline 12hrs a day!
I feel you—even San Mateo county’s is 24 hours. But actually I don’t even know if this is a privately or publicly funded organization.
The BoS eventually funded it so it is at least party publicly funded, for all the shit Oakland gets, we are deliberately jerrymandered out for the BoS and the county taxes the fuck out of us so that the sheriffs department can be armed to the teeth while Highland is falling apart.
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We are split between 3 districts such that we are a minority in 2 of them.
A majority of D3 voters are in Alameda, the area that makes it look like we are relevant is almost entirely not residential, so it looks big but we are about 5% of the vote
40% of D4 is Castro Valley, with unincorporated areas having the next 30% and the rest being split between us (25%) & Pleasanton (5%)
So we really only have 1 supervisor, a little bit of a say in a 2nd, and are completely irrelevant in a 3rd.
That was my first thought, too.
Then I went to a rapid response training and learned that the hotlines are staffed during these hours bc nearly all ICE activity happens between 6am and 5pm. They tend to get rolling pretty early in the morning.
Everyone, please keep pushing these rapid response #s to your networks
Genuine question. What will this effectively do?
They provide high quality legal services and resources to people facing immigration emergencies
ETA: it’s worthwhile looking at their website. They state their mission clearly. https://www.acilep.org/
The sooner a person has legal counsel, their outcomes tend to be better, according to the website. But also, documenting the actions could help with accountability (I mean, doubtful, but better than not having documentation), and maybe keeping track of people. Responders can also advise detainees how to behave in custody, what to say and not say, and find out how to contact their loved ones. And just knowing that someone is out there advocating for them has got to help tremendously in coping with the experience of being in custody.
One thing is to Help document it in any form which is important and so they can search for people and verify any sightings
Absolutely nothing. If they deem you illegal then. Welp.. Unless you have actual proof of citizenship.
Legal counsel for being here illegally?
this sounds like a great hotline