Anna Foley

Nice to meet you.

After a few minutes, we hopped into Mitch and Patty's car.

Mitch drove, Patty was in the front, me in back.

Patty had brought along a small notebook.

And before we left, they stopped to make sure they both had everything.

Especially their whistles.

How often do you guys use your whistles?

And you just, once you see it, that's when you start blowing?

You're blowing hard on that whistle, yeah.

Do you feel like even when you're not patrolling, do you hear whistles kind of piping through the city?

Yes, especially in the last week and a half.

They told me their goal today, and really any patrol they go on, is to document where ICE is, what they're doing, who they're taking, all as an act of resistance to show ICE they want them out and they're watching.

Take a left here and go down to Lake Street.

Yep.

Patty told me people patrolling like this coordinate through group signal chats.

Usually, they'll hop on a group call and share information about where ice has been spotted, where they think people should focus.

Hundreds of people can join these calls, and they don't necessarily know who else is there.

On this day, Patty made it really clear to everyone that I was in the car with them, though I couldn't hear.

Everyone is very nervous about who might get into these signal chats and be monitoring.

It didn't take long for them to spot a car that, to their eyes, seemed suspicious.