Nobody would probably think about hesitating to call emergency services until the issue gets blown up like this. You're doing a bigger job making people anxious than the firefighters were. When has it *ever* happened that somebody called a fire department and then got deported?
Nobody would probably think about hesitating to call emergency services until the issue gets blown up like this. You're doing a bigger job making people anxious than the firefighters were. When has it *ever* happened that somebody called a fire department and then got deported?
No, but if your concern about this truly is to minimize the amount of people who are anxious to call emergency services, publishing this and making it news is having the exact opposite effect. The prudent thing would be to not report it then with that goal in mind. Unless there is actual proof that fire fighters are reporting people to ICE after helping them, this is just fear mongering.
Please tell me a method to prove this and I will do it. I am a master at obtaining records but how the hell would I get the anonymous call logs to ICE and then back search to find if any are firefighters who were in a house?
By this logic, I should report on nothing unless there is bonafide provable harm. I would write almost nothing!
You're the journalist here, you tell me. Journalists sit on issues and decide against publishing all the time. All I am saying here is that, again, if your goal is to make people not be anxious about calling the fire department as you say it is, then this article is having the exact opposite effect. Do with that what you will.
It was on reddit with 300+ likes and is probably going to be picked up by regional media due to Evanstons political leanings. Its newsworthy and better to be addressed head on. I might agree with you on this if it was like a random tip and not already out there (I do choose to not publish stuff like that all the time). The cat was already out of the bag. But I hear you on this
Dude there was a case in Chicago several years ago where a mother did not report her landlord for turning off the heat illegally and instead tried to improvise with a space heater. All 5 of her children burned up. She didn’t report her landlord because she was afraid police or fire dept would call ICE. This is real pendejo. REAL.
Nobody would probably think about hesitating to call emergency services until the issue gets blown up like this. You're doing a bigger job making people anxious than the firefighters were. When has it *ever* happened that somebody called a fire department and then got deported?
You’re arguing that I should cover this up because I cant prove that this has ever happened, even if I wanted to?
No, but if your concern about this truly is to minimize the amount of people who are anxious to call emergency services, publishing this and making it news is having the exact opposite effect. The prudent thing would be to not report it then with that goal in mind. Unless there is actual proof that fire fighters are reporting people to ICE after helping them, this is just fear mongering.
Please tell me a method to prove this and I will do it. I am a master at obtaining records but how the hell would I get the anonymous call logs to ICE and then back search to find if any are firefighters who were in a house?
By this logic, I should report on nothing unless there is bonafide provable harm. I would write almost nothing!
You're the journalist here, you tell me. Journalists sit on issues and decide against publishing all the time. All I am saying here is that, again, if your goal is to make people not be anxious about calling the fire department as you say it is, then this article is having the exact opposite effect. Do with that what you will.
It was on reddit with 300+ likes and is probably going to be picked up by regional media due to Evanstons political leanings. Its newsworthy and better to be addressed head on. I might agree with you on this if it was like a random tip and not already out there (I do choose to not publish stuff like that all the time). The cat was already out of the bag. But I hear you on this
Dude there was a case in Chicago several years ago where a mother did not report her landlord for turning off the heat illegally and instead tried to improvise with a space heater. All 5 of her children burned up. She didn’t report her landlord because she was afraid police or fire dept would call ICE. This is real pendejo. REAL.
Undocumented people absolutely hesitate to call emergency services.
I hope I have drawn some attention to this, so we can work towards fixing this. We are all at risk when people hesitate!