L.A. neighborhood is installing emergency sirens to warn of ICE

Although no longer in the news, immigration enforcement operations continue sporadically in the greater Los Angeles area. Fear lingers from the roving patrols that began in June 2025 and lasted for months. Salvador Hernandez for the Los Angeles Times reports that, worried that Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations is targeting business districts and neighborhoods, "some community groups have responded by looking for ways to alert residents."

Here is a new one (at least to me):

"For weeks, activists have been installing small — but loud — sirens across Highland Park [a neigheborhood in Los Angeles]. The purpose: to get people off the streets and indoors to safety and avoid being detained. . . . Some activists head out to areas where ICE agents are spotted. Some record the interactions of immigration agents pulling over and stopping residents, while others yell, blow whistles and warn people in the vicinity to avoid the area. . . . Videos have shown ICE agents ordering activists to keep their distance and to stop recording, at times threatening to arrest or detain activists."