ICE Arrests Guatemalan Workers Heading to Harvest Berries Near Woodburn, Advocate Group Says

ICE arrests Guatemalan workers heading to harvest berries near Woodburn, advocate group says

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers on Thursday arrested a group of farmworkers near Woodburn as they headed to harvest blueberries, according to Oregon for All, an immigration rights advocacy group. The incident marks the first publicly known ICE arrests of fieldworkers in Oregon since President Donald Trump took office for his second term. Last month, immigration authorities arrested a parent as he was dropping off his child at a Bea…

Guatemalan blueberry pickers detained by ICE in targeted arrests near Woodburn, attorneys say

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Legal advocates are sounding the alarm after they say Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a group of farmworkers near Woodburn on their way to work Thursday morning. According to Innovation Law Lab, the group was detained at around 6 a.m. while en route to blueberry picking work in Canby. They allege ICE agents broke the driver's side window of the workers' van, "swarmed the van and ultimately detained fo…

Woodburn area farmworkers targeted by ICE, advocates say

Immigration agents pulled over a van in Marion County on Thursday morning, busted through the driver’s window and detained four farmworkers on the way to their jobs at a blueberry farm, according to attorneys representing one of the workers.