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 KTLA. “I’ve seen a lot of fear in people’s eyes. I don’t see a lot of our ethnic minorities out in the day to day. It’s big change. It feels dystopian in a way.”
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Alcalde has posted flyers alerting neighbors about the sirens, which she hopes to begin installing later this month, the news outlet reported.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the support group.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the initiative “quite literally insane.”
“The residents of Highland Park want to buy an air raid siren—the same device that was used in London when German planes flew over—to alert the community about ICE,” she told Fox News Digital. “Seems like a public nuisance!
Organizers told the news outlet they were working with homeowners and businesses to place the sirens on private property, rather than city-owned spaces.
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They were inspired by anti-ICE agitators 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.
