Freshmen create website mapping ICE incidents (www.ricethresher.org)

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“Masked men from ICE showed up one April morning, and it all stopped. The kids couldn’t leave their homes. Our weekly classes stopped,” said Vu, a Sid Richardson College freshman. “Week after week, I would hear word of another family who left without a word. We made [the map] a few weeks later.” The website, icemap.dev, tracks ICE-related news incidents in individual counties, as well as immigrant detention facilities with documented health and security inspection failures.

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[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au -1 points 1 week ago

All the tracking, logging, preserving is cool and all but it doesn’t do anything to actually stop them.

The time to move onto new things needs to come. Make sites showing how to organise, train, and resist, make sites giving the names and addresses of ICE agents and their supporters, etc.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

add on new things sure but preserving evidence of the crimes is important.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago

https://www.iceinmyarea.org/

https://iceout.org/en/

https://deportationtracker.live/

https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids/

https://iceraidtracker.webnode.page/live-map/

https://icelist.is/

https://icewatch.app/

Etc etc?

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

yup. any one of those comprehensively have every single thing recorded with all possible data around the incidents? of course there will be overlap. some is regional. organization is key to and luckily some states are doing just that so they are court ready.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago

Does distributing information over 20 competing trackers help ensure it's in an easy to find manner?

At some point you need to stop with adding new ICE trackers and start focusing on other areas that need attention. Where's the Anti-ICE tracker, that shows you were the nearest group you can get in contact with to oppose ICE?

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

pretty much the same as the trackers. there are many and there is not one master list or source. They are not competing its that the efforts are grass roots bottom up. By its nature its not centralized and comprehensive on a single source.

[-] Aatube@thriv.social 1 points 1 week ago

None of these are the same thing. ICE List is a wiki, all the others are crowdsourced reports. This one is:

icemap aggregates both unstructured and structured data from a multitude of public online sources, then distills these data into useful news streams and figures. Currently, this vizualization pulls statistics and articles from ICE newsroom reports, TRAC immigration data, as well as a myriad of local and national news sources.

There's no problem with decentralization if the data used is all the same. In fact, it provides for a credible exit.