Many New Yorkers now carry a whistle to sound the alarm when they see teams of armed masked agents in fatigues and tactical gear who have started to menace the city, from Washington Heights to East Elmhurst.
Others are texting each other in groups they created on the encrypted messaging app Signal. “I was getting notifications in our chat that ICE was knocking on doors, so we rushed over here to see what was happening,” said a Bensonhurst resident, who told AMNY they saw agents abduct a woman described as a young mother with an 8-month old baby.
“ICE is a rogue agency that is lawlessly terrorizing New Yorkers,” said Murad Awawdeh, President of the New York Immigration Coalition, which alerted the media when agents raided a basement apartment in Queens without a warrant, and pointed guns at a mother and her four children – all to search for a cousin who moved away years ago…