Adam Serwer

mexican-american owned or something like that um so they know there'll be a target for immigration authorities and then you have people in cars and generally you know these people are referred to as observers or commuters and you'll have a driver and a co-pilot and the co-pilot will listen to sorry my uh my cat uh loves it whenever i'm recording you two people love the cat all good so

The co-pilot will listen to a dispatcher who will identify locations where ICE activity is occurring or the presence of an ICE vehicle.

Now, ICE came in and basically took all the rental cars in the city.

I couldn't even get one.

And so they have all these, you know, sport utility vehicles with out of state plates, which made them relatively easy to identify.

And so the ice watch folks, which and they're, you know, decentralized, organized by neighborhood.

It's a very person to person thing.

That's why it was difficult for conservatives to infiltrate, although they appear to have successfully done that.

And they operate using handles.

So I don't actually know the names of the people that I was with.

I know their handles and I can communicate with them and I can talk to them and I can confirm things with them.

But, you know, they did not give me their names.

At least in some cases, they did not give me their actual names.

And they, you know, they go around a neighborhood looking for ICE vehicles.

When they find an ICE vehicle, they report it back to the dispatcher or they follow the ICE vehicle and they make noise to let everybody else in the neighborhood know that ICE exists.

is around.

Everybody knows that it's both ICE and the Border Patrol and maybe some other federal agents.

Everybody's masked.

It's not like they're telling you who they are.

Everybody just simply refers to ICE, which may be a source of frustration for ICE people who feel like the Border Patrol are the real yahoos here.