A 70 year old woman unable to join the resistance on the streets tells me:

The fact that this is terrorism and not law enforcement is proven by the numbers of legal residents who were picked up, detained overnight, and then let out in the bitter cold with nothing to protect them.

The spirit of people is incredible. It is about 10°, and resistance volunteers come in from the cold just to warm up before going out again. Many of them, my friends, show up at the Whipple Building where those arrested are detained. [More on the Whipple Building here.] They wait for persons who have been arrested to be let out. ICE lets them out without coats, without any transportation. So people bring them into their cars. But they do not necessarily go home because their phones are now being tracked by ICE.  It knows exactly where the person is.

I have given $2,000 to people who need it, as they are not showing up for work. We try to go to migrant restaurants. The doors are locked, we knock and are let in. Many restaurants are struggling because their kitchen staff may come from Ecuador and they’re not showing up. My sister is having a house built outside the city. ICE came and arrested two workers. They both had green cards. They were let out. One of them has washed his hands of the United States and is going back.

I came home from an out of state trip the other day. At the airport, everyone was carrying an extra 20 pounds of worry and grief. I have never seen this before.  I feel humiliated about how I am depleted, I cannot express myself, to face such destruction of this city.