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27-yr-old creates app that warns illegal immigrants of potential raids in America

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27-yr-old creates app that warns illegal immigrants of potential raids in America

A 27-year-old web developer and designer Celso Mireles, once an undocumented immigrant himself, is developing an open source app that will show people exactly when and where raids on illegal immigrants are happening.

While still in the development phase, RedadAlertas (or “raid alerts”) plans to give verified, secure information about when the government sends in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to round people up.

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The sudden immigration raids under Trump have put undocumented immigrant communities on high alert in major U.S. cities such as Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York.

Some of these people have switched up their daily routines to avoid being found, from signing legal documents asking family and friends to pick up their kids from school to carrying around “Know Your Rights” guides in Spanish and English that explain what to do if they’re in a raid, Time reports.

Just 24 days into Donald Trump’s presidency, more than 680 undocumented immigrants were forced to leave the country in a series of mass raids. That’s an average of about 28 people each day.

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