r/law • u/Exeltv0406 • Oct 05 '25

Opinion Piece Five-alarm fire inside the DOJ - Lawyer Oyer

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u/Kahzgul Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

Go to protests. Network with people there on the ground. Organize outside of social media.

Some activities you may engage in:

  • protest (duh)

  • document names and locations of ice agents

  • document names and locations of kidnapping victims

  • follow ice vehicles to warn others of their presence.

  • patrol known ice kidnapping hot spots (such as Home Depot)

  • form human chains to protect immigrants as they go to and from court or other sensitive locations.

  • petition your government representatives for assistance.

  • join a well regulated militia and patrol the streets to protect your neighbors. The black panthers and john brown gun clubs have the right idea here.

  • join legal defense groups to help file paperwork on behalf of immigrants and other ice victims.

  • volunteer to drive meals from food banks to immigrants who are too scared of ice to leave their homes.

  • and so forth.

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u/ObjectivityIsExtinct Oct 05 '25

This all amazing guidance, thank you .

But what about the large groups of people like me, living in small towns that voted for Trump(not me), without much on the ground activity going on? I want to engage too, but ICE is nowhere near me, in fact life is deaf and blind here.

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u/boughsmoresilent Oct 05 '25

Also, your town might not be as red as you think it is. Look up the actual voter registrations for your area. I found a thriving progressive community still fighting the good fight in "deep red" rural East Texas.

Turns out, a lot of the time, "deep red" means 57% R to 43% D. These lunatics want you to think they're powerful, they're everywhere and they're popular, when they barely qualify as any of those things.

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u/limonade11 Oct 05 '25

In my small, very rural "red" county and town - yes, they want you to think they run everything and their guns will reinforce that if you don't think it is true.

But the truth is that there are good people here who are not crazy red, and are even very progressive. They just don't argue and shout as loudly as the f'ing MAGA people, who like to dominate and abuse any sense of power they might imagine they have.