A reporter spent 5 days on the ground at ICE protests and discovers they are organized and paid

A reporter spent 5 days on the ground at ICE protests and discovers they are organized and paid

She says in the morning they talk about “doing shifts”

Each group of protesters gets a specified neighborhood, and they have a “goal time”

Protesters caught saying “I did my shift”

“I was on the ground for five days. And one thing I did start to notice, they do do this in shifts. I kept hearing this. The first morning that I was there, a woman said, Hey guys, we're moving out to the neighborhoods. We hit our goal time.

— And then another time I heard someone say, oh, I did my shift”

A reporter spent 5 days on the ground at ICE protests and discovers they are organized and paid

She says in the morning they talk about “doing shifts”

Each group of protesters gets a specified neighborhood, and they have a “goal time”

Protesters caught saying “I did my shift”… pic.twitter.com/m8wTXLPyWQ

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes)January 14, 2026