Overview

• Group chats share real-time locations of checkpoints, photos of detainees and suspected ICE vehicles to help people avoid arrests.
• Volunteers, including organizer Lorena Betts, record raids, connect detainees with lawyers and search for those transferred to other states within hours.
• BBC News Brasil has been monitoring these channels, which feature posts about abandoned cars and appeals to identify people taken into custody.
• Some members in Boston and Lowell report using drones to watch for ICE activity and circulate aerial images in the chats.
• The mobilization follows tougher enforcement under President Trump, including a Supreme Court decision broadening agents’ discretion and DHS figures of about 400,000 deportations with roughly 60,000 people in detention.