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In preparation for ICE tactics to possibly intensify in Washington, as they have in Minnesota and Chicago.

A grassroots alert system using whistles is growing to warn neighbors of nearby ICE Groups have formed to pack whistle kits, turning library tables from Issaquah to Covington and distribution grounds for the simple and cheap alarm system.

Each kit contains a 3D printed whistle, a 'Know Your Constitutional Rights' card and an instruction booklet on how and when to use a whistle.

It's easy to feel helpless when you turn on the television at night.

You see the news and you see people being abducted from their place of work, from schools, from places of worship, from the street.

I've attended protests, I've called my local legislators, and this this was physical action that I felt I was doing something instead of just sitting at home having a panic attack.

Volunteers say requests for the packets have come from school and community groups to businesses and unions.

Groups are also holding whistle training sessions.

It's impossible right now to predict where ICE will be any given day or any given moment.

It's, you know, kind of like lightning striking.

And their tactics are such that if you're not there within five minutes, they're gone in most cases.

So the more we can do to prepare the better.

Folks in other states are also adopting the warning system, turning the whistle into a symbol of ICE resistance.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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