UMD students hold ‘ICE Whistle Training Session’

DULUTH, Minn. — As Immigration and Customs Enforcement increases raids in cities across the country, the University of Minnesota-Duluth’s chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America are taking action of their own.

The student organization’s most recent event is what they dub an “ICE whistle training session.”

The event welcomed community members to campus as well, with the organizers providing free whistles to everybody there, which can be used during ICE raids to help alert other people.

The goal of the session was not only to train people on how to use the whistles, but also how to keep themselves out of trouble during raids.

“The biggest thing, at least for me personally, is knowing what actions that we’re able to do and how to protect our community,” said the chapter’s Treasurer Steven Orwick.

“Because we don’t want to see people getting hurt, getting injured, or getting detained, or arrested for stuff that they didn’t do, or that they don’t know that they can do,” said Orwick.

Attendees’ faces were not filmed by request of UMD’s chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America.