It might be time to leave the USA, if you can. I'm sorry to say that, but your family is more important than the country where you live. If you're this afraid, it's time to go somewhere that you're not afraid to live.

I know ICE has a reputation of doing whatever they want, but in an effort to provide the most civil option possible:

1. Have your family keep their papers on them at all times. In the house, in the yard, wherever. You get out of bed, your papers are in your pocket, in bed, they're right there next to you. Ideally add some extra notes (people to contact, names numbers and addresses if you have them) and keep that with it.

2. Talk with family and friends and make contingency plans. Have a place to say you're from or find out where people are getting deported to, reach out to family/friends out there (if you have any) and have them aware of your concerns. Save up money to be ready to travel if you need to reunite with them.

3. Talk as a family. Explain what could happen, and help them to understand what to do. Fire drills save lives in an emergency. This is no different.

I can't promise a solution, I certainly wouldn't recommend trying to fight with a gun if anything happens, all it will do is add fuel to their fire and get someone hurt. But being prepared to ride out a storm is always better than being stuck out in one in the open.

According to lemmy, just peacefully protest.

According to history, take their factories down.

I am with you in whatever you decide what's best for you and your family.

Personally I'd move out of the country completely. It's going to get worse over the next few years not better.
If the fat orange paedo is still alive at the next election, and if there is a next election, I feel that he'll just go the insurrection route again. However I also feel that there won't be an election, he'll deffo do whatever it takes to become a dictator etc etc.
And if he dies then the regime that controlled and enabled him will still be there to carry on their work. Because, let's face it, all this that's happening isn't his idea. The useless orange child rapist doesn't have the mental capacity to have ideas. So the next person will just carry on.
So, again, I'd just leave if at all possible.

If you can't leave the country could you move to a friendlier state?
Or move to the town that's just been ransacked, do you know what the chances of the Gestapo going through that town again?
If your neighbours are asking where people are from then it's not exactly a friendly town to live in the first place.

It's no help to you but I'm sorry you have to live like this.

I'd recommending moving somewhere that isn't 200 miles from any border, so ICE won't spy on you. They'll do this for everyone, including citizens, if they're 200 miles from the border on all sides.

Is there no document that could be prepared with a lawyer to clarify your rights, make them think a bit and move on?

I am so sorry. Stay grounded.

If you think you might be aware of when they will come, consider clearing out for a few days. From what I have been reading, ICE cruises a neighborhood for 1 - 3 days, often first thing in the morning, before actually coming through with deportation sweeps. They think they are slick, but they stick out like a sore thumb to anyone paying attention because they will literally drive through the same area on the same streets multiple times in an hour.

This is no guarantee of having any kind of prelude, especially if you are in a state which has signed onto the mutual cooperation agreement with ICE, but if you have no better ideas, then seeing SUVs you're not used to seeing in your town would be a great time to visit somewhere else, even for just three days or however long you may think they are likely to remain. Family in another state, some national park, or even just some fucking motel on a highway somewhere else. A large, tightly packed older city can also be good, because they're easy to hide in.

It seems like ICE has two basic prongs to making their arrests: 1) those they have singled out beforehand and find individually going off of reports they have already generated, and 2) those they sweep up for the crime of existing when they show up. Getting out of town temporarily removes you from the second, and also makes it much harder for them to complete the first if you're already on some kind of list you know nothing about. But either way, clear out as best you can for as long as you can.

Pack now so you can leave at any moment, then time it the best you can. Do everything as stealthily as you can, hit an ATM before you leave and then use cash wherever you can, and absolutely turn off your phones when you go, staying off social media when you do turn them on. If you can trade cars for a week with family that you trust, that's even better because of Flock.

You probably can't do all of this, but do what you can, it's ALL worth the effort. It's not that they can't find you if they try hard enough, it's that breaking all their tracking wherever and whenever you can makes it more difficult. These are not shoe leather on the street boys, these are sit on my fat ass and have reports handed to me while eating another donut boys. At this point, staying offline is half the battle, because they can't go door to door, they're too afraid someone will shoot them, and rightly so. Note that California, Illinois and New York have some of the lowest gun ownership numbers in the entire US: that's not by accident.

I hope some of this helps. And in the meantime, please know that if there was any way we could help you directly I'd be DMing you with an offer of a place to hide out, but we are in a tiny place with health issues and no spare room at all. I hope that someone who actually does have the room to host you contacts you with an invitation. Because these are not normal times: this whole thing is insane, and it is flatly evil. Your life is worth as much as mine, your family is equally as precious, and it is outrageous that any of this is being done in my name as your countryman. I wish you every blessing.

If you don't already own a firearm, I strongly suggest now is the time to obtain one (rifle, shotgun, or a nice full-size pistol with a brace) for your family's safety. I would also suggest getting pepperspray, a taser, or a small-caliber handgun (.380 would be good) for your wife.