r/antiwork • u/esporx • 1d ago

Union Strikes Boycotts đŸȘ§ ICE detains leader of farmworker union in northwest Washington state

https://www.kuow.org/stories/ice-detains-farmworker-activist-in-northwest-washington-state
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u/Cultural_Dust 1d ago

It's getting real crazy when small town police departments are "resisting" and refusing to cooperate with the Federal government.

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u/_t_h_r_o_w__away 1d ago

Bellingham has ~95k residents so it's a little more than a small town but I agree with your point!!

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u/Cultural_Dust 1d ago

That was Mount Vernon that said they wouldn't. They are at like 35k. I guess that's "small city", but not typically "liberal" in any way. The main reason is that it's too costly for their ag-based community to have undocumented people fear the police.

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u/goshi0 1d ago

Detaining union leaders.... When I have seen this movie...?

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u/UnjuggedRabbitFish 1d ago

Juarez received Whatcom County’s Dotty Dale Youth Peacemaker Award in 2023 for his volunteer work and worker organizing in three languages — English, Spanish, and Mixteco. He is a volunteer with Community to Community Development (C2C) and served on the City of Bellingham's Immigration Advisory Board.

Juarez also helped found Familias Unidas por la Justicia, a farmworker union based in Skagit County when he was a teen. Guillén suspects that his visibility as a community leader made him a target for immigration enforcement. 


“The Trump administration and ICE have claimed that they are going after ‘the worst of the worst’ — but there is no indication that Alfredo Juarez Zeferino and the other people detained today represent the worst of the worst,” Rep. Larsen said in a statement. “Immigrating to the United States is legal. Union organizing is legal.”

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u/Pakun-of-Dundrasil 1d ago

Damn when is enough going to be enough?

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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord 1d ago

They’re capitalist fascists. They have no idea what enough means. Is that a Danish term?

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u/Pfelinus 1d ago

Please people start to group up.

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u/jfun4 14h ago

I agree but at the same time, they want to call Marshal law. Idk how this doesn't end in a blood bath

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u/Melodic_Ad_3053 1d ago

These federal agencies and agents need to remember that ‘following orders’ is not a defense.