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Organized as in they have meetings, serve cookies, and coffee? Most likely not. These anti-ice groups seem to be extemporaneous meetups.

Define obstruction. Everything reported, blowing whistles, encouraging businesses not provide service to ICE agents, and recording from a distance is not obstruction. It's a First Amendment right to keep government forces in check.

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There are many anti ICE activists that are organized. ACLU and Indivisible are two such groups. There are many instances of people obstructing federal agents by anti ICE activists and protesters.

You claimed organized crimes; not simply organized resistance. What crimes are they organizing?

Resistance itself is not criminal, especially when many of the actions they are resisting are themselves illegal. In fact, it is our civic duty to resist illegal or immoral actions by the government.

It becomes organized crime if they got paid for their actions.

Nice non-sequitur. I asked what crime they allegedly committed, not whether it was organized.

Surely organizing and paying people to do things by itself is not a crime.

Obstructing a federal agent and resisting arrest are crimes.

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