DWCNV Meeting

Tracy Endo will lead us through a Community Responder Training lesson. Tracy, a long-time area resident, began working as an activist with the immigration community in 2025 and has since stepped into a volunteer role as an organizer and a trainer.

As ICE activity has intensified across Northern Virginia, this training will help to equip neighbors to respond together, not alone. Grounded in the principle that safety comes from organized relationships, not surveillance, Community Responder Training covers both the immediate and the ongoing: what to do the moment you witness suspected ICE activity, and how to build the lasting neighborhood infrastructure that makes rapid response possible in the first place.

Participants will learn:

• Know Your Rights: how federal, state, and local law enforcement collaborate under current policy, the difference between an administrative warrant and a criminal judicial warrant, and where ICE can and cannot legally act (private space, public space,…