What can you do about ICE living in Seattle

All of us see the headlines. Many of us are scared, scared for ourselves, our communities and those we don’t know. It feels overwhelming, terrifying to see such ruthlessly violent actions happening in the country we call home. It is terrifying to think that ICE might decide at any time to descend on this city that we love. You might feel powerless, not knowing what you could possibly do against such a threat.

If you are feeling this way, here are some things you can do right now to combat ICE, right here where you live, today.

First, The South Seattle Emerald ran an article on people making whistles to alert people of ICE coming and bring people together to make sure ICE knows that they are being watched. https://southseattleemerald.org/news/2025/11/06/a-fistful-of-loud-seattle-neighbors-build-whistle-kits-to-protect-immigrants-from-ice

Whistles are popping up in nonprofits and businesses all over the city. If you can help, use the link to help find them and organize if you can. If you have a 3D printer, there’s a desperate need for people to help with printing more whistles. We cannot afford for ICE to work with impunity any longer, we need to make it clear that we are doing our best to warn our communities and keep an eye on ICE.

Second, there has been campaigns to email or call City Hall to demand that they take all the actions they can. There will be an action letter with demands at the bottom of this post along with numbers and emails of people you can contact.

Third, to your capacity, there are people who are doing the hard work to show up when needed and protest ICE. Last June members of our community kept ICE from taking people from the Federal building by showing up and resisting to the point where ICE gave up that tactic. We can apply these ideas elsewhere. If this is something you are interested in, go to local rallies, and connect with local grassroots organizations.

This fight isn’t over, this is our city and this is our community. We can make a change but it’s going to take all of our help

Letter to City Hall

Hello,

My name is (Your name) and I’m a concerned resident of Seattle. I am calling (your representative whether city council person or Mayor) to demand that (he/she) takes action against ICE.

There are common sense approaches that need to be done immediately to restrict ICE from taking our neighbors.

ICE has access to Flock Cameras. These unsecure Cameras need to be banned immediately as ICE is using these to track any person they want to kidnap https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/ https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/2025/10/21/leaving-the-door-wide-open/
ICE has been using location data from all of our phones. Sharing of our sensitive location data by third parties needs to be banned to keep all of us safe. https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
Seattle needs to make it illegal for any officer to refuse to identify themselves. This is critical to hold ICE agents accountable who would terrorize our neighbors.
SPD needs to be directed to arrest ICE agents who break laws in Seattle. While it is unlikely these arrests would stick long term, these arrests will deter ICE from acting with impunity in our city like we have seen this last week in Minneapolis.

We cannot allow the next viral video of ICE killing people to happen in Seattle. This needs to stop now

Contact information

City Council
[council@seattle.gov](mailto:council@seattle.gov)

Seattle Mayor
Katie B. Wilson

https://seattlegov.powerappsportals.us/contact-mayor/ (This way of contact is public record. For privacy reasons, calling is preferred)
[(206) 684-4000](tel:%20+1%20(206)%20684-4000)

Seattle City Council Members

Rob Saka

District 1 (West Seattle, South Park, Georgetown, Pioneer Square)

[(206) 684-8801](tel:%20+1%20(206)%20684-8801)

[rob.saka@seattle.gov](mailto:rob.saka@seattle.gov)

Eddie Lin

District 2 (South Seattle, Yesler Terrace to Rainier Beach)

[(206) 684-8802](tel:%20+1%20(206)%20684-8802)

[eddie.lin@seattle.gov](mailto:eddie.lin@seattle.gov)

Joy Hollingsworth

District 3 (Central Seattle)

[(206) 684-8803](tel:%20+1%20(206)%20684-8803)