The brothers, Sam and Ben Luhmann, with the full support and encouragement of their parents, have spent dozens of hours patrolling their own and nearby neighborhoods watching for ICE, updating Signal threads with sightings.

Ben “wanted to be able to fight it so bad” when he started seeing ICE aggression in L.A. So when the raids came to Chicago, he was ready. He says, “If I get the opportunity to fight like this for the rest of my life, I would be totally OK with that”.

This activity is not without risk: at one point, Ben and Sam find their vehicle surrounded by ICE agents, and they are dragged out, put in handcuffs, and threatened. After a few moments to process the experience, they get another call and are off to resume their patrol.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)