Why “just comply” is terrible advice
Know your rights. Exercise them when you feel the time is appropriate.
While it may seem like sound advice, just going along with ICE, not arguing, or asserting your rights to remain “safe,” is the worst path. This normalizes giving up your rights; it does not reduce harm.
This YouTube video makes the point clearly, calmly, and repeatedly. Everyone needs to make their own risk assessments, but promoting blanket obedience to illegal authority is exactly what an abusive system relies on. Safety very quickly becomes shorthand for compliance.
Know your rights. Exercise them when you feel the time is appropriate.
Before you comply, ask yourself who it is that's telling you you should "just comply".
Benjamin Franklin had some pithy sayings on this subject:
•“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
•“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics…derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.”
•“Ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation to the prejudice and oppression of another is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy…An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.”
Do we have anyone remotely like him anymore involved in US governance?