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OK, so I have to explain every tiny detail it seems

Existing migrant activist groups get the first say on this as they are the most closely engaged with the overall politics. If you have a circle of 25 friends and three are undocumented, the opinion range you get is three out of however many undocumented people are in your community. If you are acting in direct defense of one of them (e.g ICE shows up at their door) you don't need any permission other than theirs. If YOU are undocumented and ICE shows up at your door then you need only your own permission to act. If ICE shows up at the door of someone you've never met, first orders come from any support team they have, FOLLOWED by their legal team (if any, remembering attorneys can't advise extralegal action w/o risking their bar cards). Next up if neither of these exist is the overall migrant activist community.

If you are acting on behalf of folks you have never met (say in response to a series of ICE raids or CPB jailings at the "border"), than migrant activist groups get the first say. This is exactly the same as going to Standing Rock in 2016, where it was clear to most that the Standing Rock Sioux tribe had the absolute right to make the decisions on how to deal with the "Black Snake" as the pipeline was called due to a prophecy. Internal division among Lakota water defenders led to others cherry-picking which Indigenous elders to listen to, which created problems enough. In the end, my suspicion is the tribal leadership ordered the camp evacuation post-Trump because they saw the situation was no longer militarily tenable, and because the siege of Backwater Bridge had cut off tourist/casino revenue without which food and medicine would become unaffordable. Water is life-but so is food and the tribal leadership has to consider the sum total of all threats to the tribe, wheras a single-issue water defender travelling half a continent to fight was focussed on just one of them. Nothing wrong with that, but such things are one of many reasons those who live in a community every day and are there long after the newspapers and the "battle glory" have moved on get to make the decisions.