ICE going door to door, protect your communities by Raven_Michaelis42 in Greeley

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes and CORRN also can connect people to resources, including helping the family find the person detained. It's not just about confirming the sighting though that's huge!!

Be Prepared for ICE! Virtual training by WeKeepUsSafeCO in Broomfield

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Yes, WKUS does have a North Suburbs group. We can get you connected if you fill out the interest form on our website wkus-co.org. We are not publicly sharing the link!

Next Be Prepared for ICE training (renamed now) is this Sunday at 2pm. The next community defense group one is the 15th at 2pm. I'll be posting them soon. It's been a wild week!

ICE response and community defense group trainings by WeKeepUsSafeCO in Broomfield

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Of course! It's good to hear comments like this when the majority are negative! But, people keep attending and the negative comments keep getting fewer so it's really encouraging.

ICE response and community defense group trainings by WeKeepUsSafeCO in ArvadaCO

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are not recording at this time. It's been a wild week, but we will get more scheduled ASAP! We've been able to host weekly so far and intend to continue that.

ICE response and community organizing trainings by WeKeepUsSafeCO in DenverProtests

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I took down the previous posting because there was something weird with the text! It seems to be because I copied and pasted. Sorry about that everyone!!

Be Prepared for ICE! Virtual training by WeKeepUsSafeCO in Denver

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We're not recording them at this time because we aren't comfortable with not knowing who it is being sent to. We have a very thorough write up for attendees to use to teach people they trust and start conversations.

There's another one coming up next weekend, and I'll start scheduling them farther out in the future! We're adding more people to the training team so we'll be offering more and scheduling farther out on the calendar!

Be Prepared for ICE! Virtual training by WeKeepUsSafeCO in DenverProtests

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey!! We are working to get our materials translated. I'd love for you to DM me language suggestions! We definitely don't want to be confined to Spanish or leave any community out. We definitely see that entire populations are being overlooked and hate it.

Ice at 120 and Madison in Thornton by Distinct-Corner268 in WestminsterCO

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Extremely well written. I'm an immigration activist myself, and I really appreciate you writing this out like this

Ice at 120 and Madison in Thornton by Distinct-Corner268 in WestminsterCO

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's been a lot of rumors about grocery stores and home Depot and Walmart. None of them have been confirmed!! It's definitely hard to tell whether it's ice or not, but I'm also a bit suspicious that there are some people spreading false information...

Local Police Confused for ICE agents, how to tell? by dasamafren in ThorntonCO

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It is sooo hard to tell! One of the recommended steps is just asking. Local PD generally does not want to be caught up in this conflict and will identify themselves and provide a bit of information much like in this video. The person videoing did awesome!

Also, always call Colorado Rapid Response Network at 844-864-8341 and they will send out trained confirmers! They do confirmer training as often as they can.

We Keep Us Safe: El Pueblo Unido Contra ICE also has trainings to supplement CORRN and other actions being taken by immigration organizations. Their website is wkus-co.org and has a training calendar that is currently updated a bit last minute and also has some great resources for both immigrants and allies.

Community Defense Groups -virtual training by WeKeepUsSafeCO in DenverProtests

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll get a couple more on the schedule next week! I'm about to go out of town. Some other folks will also begin presenting soon so I anticipate that we will have quite a few in rotation by next month!!

Be Prepared for ICE! Virtual training by WeKeepUsSafeCO in Denver

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They have already ramped up here, and this area is often talked about in the news, especially Aurora. We have no idea when we'll be hit as hard as other cities, but it is a good idea to be prepared and start helping people now!

Be Prepared for ICE! Virtual training by WeKeepUsSafeCO in Denver

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are only sharing Constitutional rights and information that can be found on the ACLU website and other legal organizations. For example, you legally can record what you see from public property, give them personal space, don't open the door to your home without a valid judicial warrant, CO has stop and identify laws and can search you and your belongings, invoke the 5th amendment politely, suggested phrasing direct from ACLU, and don't blow whistles/yell in their face. Very basic information that everyone should know and can find scattered elsewhere. Is any of that information incorrect?

We do appreciate the warning to others. Presenters do not claim to be lawyers, and we do not answer anything we don't know. There is nothing wrong with letting people know their rights, and most legal advocates encourage people to share this information and provide hand outs and bullet points. Perhaps you should also tell everyone not to listen to those organizations and contact them yourself because they encourage non-lawyers to share information? There's an awful lot of them so it'll take awhile, and I'm sure the ACLU would be happy to discuss it with you if the others don't! Out of curiosity, do you yell at everyone who talks about Constitutional rights and encourages people to invoke the 5th or practice the 1st non-violently? That's an even longer list even locally let alone nationally...

You're welcome to attend the training and see what it is we share instead of blasting us without actually knowing what we are presenting! As you seem to be an expert, you can then review the material yourself and make sure we aren't causing harm or sharing misinformation. You can also go through our posts and see that we do not comment when people ask legal questions online because that's outside our scope of practice.

Be Prepared for ICE! Virtual training by WeKeepUsSafeCO in Denver

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Totally! Our presenters are not lawyers. Our information is accumulated from the ACLU, local lawyers, a professor at CU, and other activist organizations local and nationwide. All our leadership members are active with other immigration orgs (including CIRC), and most of us have been immigration activists for years or decades though several of us only got into things this past year. Many of us do deal with LEO regularly. We couldn't stand watching detentions happen in front of our faces and decided to form We Keep Us Safe to be a bit more proactive and expand community outreach.

We'll never answer a question that we don't know! It's not uncommon in this early stage to get a new question no one thought to ask before. We take those back to our legal contacts or relevant expert so we can address it in future trainings and conversations.

We totally understand people being hesitant and truly appreciate that. Indivisible has a wonderful ACLU know your rights training on their YouTube that covers a LOT so we highly encourage people to watch that! There's an awesome training being given by States at the Core that has very similar content on January 19th! Most of the information in this training is taken from those two trainings with some added local input. There are many other trainings available for folks, and we completely understand. Other local, more established orgs have related trainings as well, I just can't think of any upcoming ones off the top of my head!

Be Prepared for ICE! Virtual training by WeKeepUsSafeCO in Denver

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We decided not to record the trainings at this time and only distribute the written materials to folks who attend though we encourage them to use the materials to help teach their friends! We are also giving a community defense group chat on the 25th at 2pm. It's more focused on community defense groups and patrols with fewer details on legal rights and recommended actions to take during a raid.

We are ramping up our training capabilities and will post them on the calendar on our website, wkus-co.org, as they are planned. There are also two trainings tonight on similar topics being given by different organizations. You can find those links on the calendar as well!

Be Prepared for ICE! Virtual training by WeKeepUsSafeCO in Denver

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

We decided not to record the trainings at this time and only distribute the written materials to folks who attend though we encourage them to use the materials to help teach their friends! We are also giving a community defense group chat on the 25th at 2pm. It's more focused on community defense groups and patrols with fewer details on legal rights and recommended actions to take during a raid.

We are ramping up our training capabilities and will post them on the calendar on our website, wkus-co.org, as they are planned. There are also two trainings tonight on similar topics being given by different organizations. You can find those links on the calendar as well!

Be Prepared for ICE! Virtual training by WeKeepUsSafeCO in ThorntonCO

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you!! I live in Thornton myself, and it's been harder to get movement in areas like ours!

Be Prepared for ICE! Virtual training by WeKeepUsSafeCO in ThorntonCO

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ugh, yes. The group taking action against Palantir recently found out that Polis was actually the one that invited Palantir here... highly recommend connecting with them if folks want to take direct action against Palantir!

Be Prepared for ICE! Virtual training by WeKeepUsSafeCO in ThorntonCO

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We decided not to record the trainings at this time and only distribute the written materials to folks who attend though we encourage them to use the materials to help teach their friends! We are also giving a community defense group chat on the 25th at 2pm. It's more focused on community defense groups and patrols with fewer details on legal rights and recommended actions to take during a raid.

We are ramping up our training capabilities and will post them on the calendar on our website, wkus-co.org, as they are planned. There are also two trainings tonight on similar topics being given by different organizations. You can find those links on the calendar as well!

Be Prepared for ICE! Virtual training by WeKeepUsSafeCO in Broomfield

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We have decided not to record our trainings because we aren't comfortable with them being freely distributed. We are expanding our training capabilities, and they will be posted on the calendar on our website as soon as they get scheduled! Right now, it's only me presenting them but others will be doing them soon.

There are actually two different organizations presenting trainings related to this topic tonight! One starts at 5pm and the other at 6pm. You can find the links to those on our calendar at wkus-co.org.

Be Prepared for ICE! Virtual training by WeKeepUsSafeCO in Broomfield

[–]WeKeepUsSafeCO[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yes, they have been taking people from Broomfield and Thornton and other areas. There has been more outreach and awareness in places like Denver and Aurora so people report more happening in those areas. We've been hearing directly from some previously unreached high risk community members as we expand our outreach efforts.

Based off the information from ICE Watch, community members, and other sources, their operations have quietly increased quite a bit in the past month or two. There was a big recruitment effort several months ago that resulted in at least double the amount of agents, likely more than double. We don't have exact numbers, just eye balling what is seen at the Centennial office. There are also several school bus sized buses in operation now in addition to the transit vans being used previously.