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Highland Park anti-ICE sirens: a further descent into anarchy

Highland Park activists in Los Angeles are installing air-raid style sirens across their neighborhood.

Not to warn residents about earthquakes. Not to warn about wildfires. But to warn illegal immigrants that ICE agents are nearby.According to The California Post, activists have placed roughly 20 bright red sirens across the Highland Park neighborhood. When someone spots federal immigration agents, they can activate the devices through a mobile phone app.

The sirens can reportedly be heard up to half a mile away.Flyers posted around the neighborhood explain the purpose clearly enough. When the siren goes off, residents are told to get off the streets, go indoors, and lock down.

In other words, it is a coordinated warning system designed to help illegal immigrants evade federal immigration enforcement.

And the activists involved appear proud of it. They say it helps “keep the community safe.”Let’s be clear about what is actually happening here.

People are deliberately interfering with federal officers who are enforcing federal law.

That should not be celebrated. It should be investigated. Illegal entry into the United States is a federal offense.

And people who remain in the country unlawfully — whether by entering illegally or overstaying a visa — are subject to federal immigration enforcement and removal.

The people these sirens are meant to warn are illegal immigrants living in the U.S. without legal authorization.

The scale of the problem is enormous. Roughly 11 million illegal immigrants were living in the United States as of 2022, according to the Department of Homeland........

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