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My Sister's Neighbor Called Ice On Her

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Location: NJ (where my sister is)

For background info, my sister is Asian American and was born in the US. My sister has this crazy neighbor who has a history of being hostile towards her, and they recently took it to the next level by calling ICE and claiming that she's here illegally. She informed me of this earlier today and we're now trying to put together a plan for what our family needs to do if ICE really does show up and arrest her. I live several states away from her currently and can't be with her in person right now. We've established that if she does end up detained that she'd call me ASAP to help get her out, but I'm worried that ICE won't even let her have a phone call since they've amped up their measures recently.

She should be fine since she's a natural born citizen, but I've heard that ICE may just detain her anyways because they have a "detain first, figure it out later" mindset to meet arrest quotas. What should we do in case ICE really does show up at her home? How likely is it that they'll follow through on a tip from her neighbor claiming she's illegal? Part of me worries that I won't even know if she's taken away one day, since I'm not with her in person right now and most arrests probably don't make the news.

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