With Detention of Beloved Farmworker Organizer, ICE Comes for the Labor Movement

With detention of beloved farmworker organizer, ICE comes for the labor movement

This story originally appeared in Truthout on Apr. 01, 2025. It is shared here with permission. On the morning of March 25, farmworker organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was forcibly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who stopped his car while he was driving his wife to work in Skagit County, Washington. People to whom Juarez has spoken say he requested to see a warrant, and when he attempted to get his ID after being aske…

With Detention of Beloved Farmworker Organizer, ICE Comes for the Labor Movement

“We believe he was targeted,” says the political director of the farmworker union that Alfredo Juarez helped to create.

Now they’re targeting labor: Union farmworker Alredo ‘Lelo’ Juarez Zeferino seized by ICE

FERNDALE, Wash.—At 7:21 a.m. on Tuesday, March 25, a prominent immigration activist, Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, known by the community as “Lelo,” was arrested in Sedro-Woolley, Wash., by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, while driving his partner to her workplace. Lelo is a volunteer organizer with Community to Community, or C2C, a local food justice organization and has been serving with the network since he was 12 years old. He’s now …

Flemington Residents Band Together as 'Beloved' Member of Community Apprehended by ICE

FLEMINGTON, NJ - A beloved member of the Flemington community has been detained by ICE, and residents and elected officials are working together to try to get him released.A popular server at the...