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
(16,387 posts)idahoblue
(451 posts)I cant imagine any undocumented or green card person would risk their life and livelihood to be a union leader.
Cheezoholic
(3,622 posts)calimary
(89,499 posts)Once weve sent them to Mar-a-Lago to take out the trash.
LiberalArkie
(19,580 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
(10,844 posts)You know, according to current practices and all.
Joinfortmill
(20,742 posts)Crowman2009
(3,474 posts)...for the rest of their life, with no retirement benefits. See how they like it.
eppur_se_muova
(41,516 posts)ICE recruits bullies and abusers.
Lovie777
(22,478 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
(64,075 posts)MLAA
(19,698 posts)Hope to hear something positive out of this and soon.
MLAA
(19,698 posts)wolfie001
(7,468 posts)Zero difference at this point.
Attilatheblond
(8,596 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
(12,183 posts)They need to get their boots off our necks!
Wild blueberry
(8,223 posts)Signed the pledge. Thank you for alerting us, Omaha Steve.
Marcuse
(8,889 posts)nwliberalkiwi
(422 posts)If the Dems take the house in the mid term election they should immediately defund ICE.
Onthefly
(1,225 posts)ICE- Intimidation, Coercion, Extermination. They are the Gestapo and they have added numerous evil, racist, thugs to there ranks.
Joinfortmill
(20,742 posts)Martin68
(27,430 posts)come out of the woodwork.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)"First they came for the union supporters"
PATRICK
(12,348 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
(6,633 posts)to target these people?