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It’s summer in south Florida, the land of eternal warmth. Driving in Palm Beach County — home to Mar-a-Lago — the windows are up, and the AC is blasting to counter the oppressive heat and humidity outside. A warning pops up on the Waze navigation app: “Icy road ahead.”
There is no actual danger of frozen water — instead, this is one of the ways communities are getting the word out of potential deportation operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, universally known by their acronym, ICE.
User-driven services like Waze and Ring camera alerts as well as more traditional social media like Facebook and WhatsApp groups are being used acro