URGENT: UFW worker leaders in NY have been detained

URGENT: This morning in Western NY, federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained.
After worker leaders were detained, the bus transported the remaining workers to the worksite.
The targeting of known union supporters in this action is deeply troubling and raises questions about whether immigration enforcement is being misused to intimidate organizing workers.
We will be getting back to you in coming days with updates, but for now ask you to sign the pledge to support these workers.
Sign the pledge here: https://act.seiu.org/a/nyraid5225
Tanuki
(16,525 posts)idahoblue
(456 posts)I cant imagine any undocumented or green card person would risk their life and livelihood to be a union leader.
Cheezoholic
(3,961 posts)calimary
(90,971 posts)Once weve sent them to Mar-a-Lago to take out the trash.
LiberalArkie
(19,929 posts)since no administration ever stopped it, might as well put it to use for anti-American values punishment.
I wonder what would happen if the right wing actually feared the left?
Note: Russia and China have never been "Left wing" they wear and have always been Totalitarian governments
OldBaldy1701E
(11,632 posts)You know, according to current practices and all.
Joinfortmill
(21,743 posts)Crowman2009
(3,606 posts)...for the rest of their life, with no retirement benefits. See how they like it.
eppur_se_muova
(42,597 posts)ICE recruits bullies and abusers.
Lovie777
(23,844 posts)it's a pattern. Seen commercial by Noem, hearing Bondi, Rubio, Hegseth, Vance, shithole, musk, and others using threatening words and giving ultimatums.
Wounded Bear
(64,697 posts)MLAA
(19,815 posts)Hope to hear something positive out of this and soon.
MLAA
(19,815 posts)wolfie001
(8,017 posts)Zero difference at this point.
Attilatheblond
(9,313 posts)This morning, between 6:30 and 7 a.m., a group of workers who were traveling to work on a bus were pulled over and detained by federal immigration agents in the city of Albion, New York, said Antonio De Loera, communications director for the UFW. We are not sure if it was ICE or Border Patrol.
De Loera confirmed that all detained workers are employed by Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms, a company the UFW has been organizing at since 2023. Weve already been certified as representing a good chunk of the workers there, the seasonal workers who come in on H-2A visas.
ReRe
(12,190 posts)They need to get their boots off our necks!
Wild blueberry
(8,379 posts)Signed the pledge. Thank you for alerting us, Omaha Steve.
Marcuse
(9,097 posts)nwliberalkiwi
(428 posts)If the Dems take the house in the mid term election they should immediately defund ICE.
Onthefly
(1,390 posts)ICE- Intimidation, Coercion, Extermination. They are the Gestapo and they have added numerous evil, racist, thugs to there ranks.
Joinfortmill
(21,743 posts)Martin68
(28,102 posts)come out of the woodwork.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)"First they came for the union supporters"
PATRICK
(12,425 posts)Besides climate change, the attack on ALL hispanic people coupled with a disastrous inflationary trade war shortages could make the US extremely vulnerable to a farmworkers walkout of any type. What are they going to do? Bring back all the deportees for chain gangs in the fields?
not fooled
(6,783 posts)to target these people?