As we get closer to November, we expect a rapid expansion of ICE activity across the United States. We're already seeing it, with more raids, more people taken off the streets, more people disappearing into a detention system that's growing faster than anyone can track.
So we're expanding the fight back.
Starting today, you can create an account on the ICE List and join the work directly. For the first time, documenting immigration enforcement isn't something you watch a handful of people do, it's something you can be part of, tonight, in whatever time you have.
The ICE List is a public, permanent record of who carries out this enforcement: the agents, the vehicles, the facilities, the incidents, the deaths. It exists because this information should belong to the public, not disappear into government systems that are designed to forget. Every entry is built by ordinary people. No ads, no sponsors, no one above us deciding what gets recorded.
Here's how you can help, pick whatever fits your routine:
- If you already see posts about ICE on social media, you can turn that into evidence. Spot a post, drop the link. It takes thirty seconds, and it's genuinely valuable, a lot of what matters surfaces first on social media and vanishes just as fast.
- If you've got more time, you can take those links and pull the facts out of them: a face, a badge number, a license plate, an incident with a date and a place. And if you're careful and exacting, you can double-check other people's work before it becomes part of the permanent record.
- And if you're out there with a camera, at a protest, outside a detention center, watching a raid happen, you are some of the most valuable eyes we have. What you capture becomes part of a record that outlasts the news cycle.
We built this to keep you safe. You sign up under an alias, never your real name. We show you how to browse privately, how to strip location data from your photos, and how to protect yourself on the ground. Documenting state power should never cost you your own safety, so we made the safe way the default way. Read Staying safe before you start; it takes two minutes.
One more thing you can do, right now, offline. We've made posters. If you can, print them and put them up around your town or city — especially in and around protest areas, where the people most likely to help are already standing. A poster on a wall is a volunteer we haven't met yet. [Poster 1] [Poster 2]
The people carrying out this expansion are counting on it being forgotten, on no one writing down who did what, where, and to whom, until it all blurs into something no one can hold to account.
It takes a community to fight back. Join us.
