A group in a Los Angeles neighborhood is using sirens to warn residents and business owners of federal immigration authorities.
The Highland Park Community Support group, a coalition of community members, has crowdfunded to raise funds to purchase air raid sirens.
"We’d like to ultimately have this along all the different streets so they can take shelter," Amanda Alcalde, who created the group, told in Minneapolis, who have confronted federal authorities targeting criminal illegal immigrants in that city.
On the street, volunteers have distributed ICE alert whistles, encouraging residents to warn each other when enforcement activity is seen.
"We don’t directly get ourselves involved with ICE, but we will get involved in protecting the community to stay in their office or home," activist David Trujillo told the outlet.
McLaughlin noted that some of the criminal illegal immigrants in Highland Park being shielded by the siren organizers include Carlos Danilo Barrera, a citizen of El Salvador and member of the Florencia 13 gang, who was previously convicted for second-degree murder in Los Angeles.
Others include Diego Cardona, a criminal illegal immigrant from Guatemala and 18th street gang member, who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Los Angeles. Others include citizens of Afghanistan, Mexico and elsewhere with convictions in Caliornia for robbery, driving under the influence and burglary.
Meanwhile. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass recently issued a directive to curtail ICE activity on city property.