Seeing ICE? Report it — trained observers verify.
If you are looking at something right now, call one of these lines. A trained observer goes and checks it, and the confirmed information goes back out to the community. Do not forward a video, a photo or an address before someone has verified it.
1) Call one of these — free, right now
South Florida — RAISE
English · Kreyòl · Español · Português · free
1-888-600-5762Report ICE activity — a trained observer verifies it, then connects you to a lawyer. Run by Americans for Immigrant Justice, the Florida Immigrant Coalition, Catholic Legal Services, WeCount! and the ACLU of Florida.
Anywhere in the U.S. — MigraWatch
National report line · United We Dream
1-844-363-1423The national hotline for reporting and verifying ICE activity outside Florida. Use this one if there is no local line where you live.
Minnesota — Immigrant Defense Network
COPAL · English / Español
612-255-3112Minnesota's own rapid-response and report line, answered by local organizers who know the state.
These three numbers were verified on the organizations' own materials — the RAISE line on aclufl.org. Free help by phone, in your language: every hotline we have verified →
2) What to say when you call — SALUTE
Six things, in order. Only what you saw with your own eyes. If you are not sure, say you are not sure — a guess passed along as a fact is how a rumor starts.
- S — Size. How many agents. Count if you can.
- A — Activity. What they are doing. Knocking? Waiting in a car? Taking someone?
- L — Location. The exact address, or the cross streets and the name of the business.
- U — Uniform. What it says: ICE, POLICE, HSI, or plain clothes with a vest.
- T — Time. When you saw it. Right now, or ten minutes ago.
- E — Equipment. Vehicles, colors, plate numbers, unmarked vans.
3) Why report it instead of forwarding it
⚠️ A rumor does its own damage — even when nothing is happening
Unverified posts empty workplaces, keep children home from school, and push frightened people toward notarios who charge money for nothing. That harm is real, and it lands whether or not there was ever an agent on that street.
Most viral "raid" videos and addresses turn out to be old, or somewhere else, or both. One video that keeps going around South Florida as breaking news is from June 2025 — NBC6 covered it at the time.
Calling a hotline does the opposite: a trained observer goes and checks. What comes back is either a confirmed warning people can act on, or an all-clear that stops the panic. Both protect the community. A forwarded screenshot does neither.
4) If you film it
- Filming ICE in a public place is protected by the First Amendment. You do not need permission, and you do not have to stop because you were told to.
- Do not physically block, touch or follow agents. Obstruction is what turns lawful recording into an arrest. Stay back and keep filming.
- Film what makes it verifiable — the street sign, the storefront, badge numbers, vehicle numbers and license plates. A clip with no landmark in it cannot be confirmed by anyone.
- Be careful livestreaming faces. Bystanders whose status you do not know can be exposed by a live video. Record first, and decide later what to share and with whom.