What Migra Watch is Designed to Do

• Rumor control: Verify reports that are creating fear in the real world or through social media channels

• Empower communities to be able to alert the presence of ICE, cops, and fascists, getting a rapid response of defenders

• Shine a light on ICE, law enforcement operations, and fascist attacks: Our communities are safer when people know about how and when federal agents, police, and fascists are operating nearby

• Keep families together: People who know both how to defend their rights and how immigration agents are operating nearby are less likely to be separated from their families

What It Is

• Training workers and community residents to become the eyes and ears of the movement

• Who communicate with hotline operators/dispatchers about what they see

• Who, if they encounter suspected ICE, law enforcement, or fascist are able to confidently ask questions, if safe and necessary

• And who, if they encounter ICE agents conducting operations, take directions from operators/dispatchers to provide greater awareness for immigrants who might be nearby

Establishing a Migra Watch program

• Recruit people to be part of a coordination team

• Decide on goals, roles, structure and process: Hotline schedule, hotline coordinators, shift system, recruitment and management, etc.

• Sign-up people interested in becoming trained

• Host verifier trainings (including role plays on interactions with ICE agents)

• Host “practice runs” – simulations of ICE reports to test the ICE Watch system

• Create an outreach program that educates and builds trust with immigrants face-to-face while raising awareness of the existence of a defense hotline