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But I also think about my own children.

I have two adult children, young adult children who live with me.

And I worry about that because they take public transportation.

They are waiting at train stations and bus stops, and I don't know when they'll be approached either.

So it's not just a fear for myself, but for my own family members and my children.

You know, for as much as he's been trying to terrorize us, that community is sticking together.

But it is not lost upon me that everywhere that I go, I see ICE vehicles.

That as I'm working with our local immigrant businesses and I'm helping open and close doors, lock and unlock doors for customers to come in to ensure that it is the customers and not ICE.

that I'm seeing and constant, even down the blocks from the places that I'm supporting and helping out, ICE vehicles, people being detained, people being grabbed off the streets, and I'm witnessing these things myself.

Just last Sunday when I was helping at one of our Mercados here, one block down, ICE had an individual, and our protestors had to walk down there to ensure that they could see what was happening, and ICE finally let that individual go after they saw that there was a group of people starting to form.

This is an everyday occurrence, and we are constantly getting notification from our community members that they see ICE vehicles, that they saw somebody get taken.

And this isn't just hearsay.

They're sending us pictures, and they're sending us evidence so that we can actually look into it and send law enforcement over to have eyes on the situation.

And so this is a complete overtake of our city, a siege of our city.

We are telling people that they do have rights and that to the best of their ability, we are sending out information to our residents if they are in their homes, that they do not have to open the doors.

We are giving them procedures as to what they can request from ICE to see and how they can provide their documentation.

But we are also letting people know where it is that they can go in order for them to have individuals who might be there to protect them.

We know that there are certain locations

that we have constitutional observers who are ready to support and to document.

We are also informing people that if you are scared and you are worried, call 911.