URGENT: UFW worker leaders in NY have been detained

[Omaha Steve]

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]

1. Video of arrest from UFW site:

Link to tweet

[idahoblue]

21. Wouldn't UFW leaders be either citizens or permanent residents?

I can’t imagine any undocumented or green card person would risk their life and livelihood to be a union leader.

[Cheezoholic]

2. ICE is our Gestapo now, pure and simple. When we get back in power we must work to reign them in n/t

[calimary]

6. Definitely!

Once we’ve sent them to Mar-a-Lago to “take out the trash”.

[LiberalArkie]

8. I do not believe that strongly worded condemnations really work with them. May actually need to be sent to Gitmo

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]

7. I like the idea of dissolving the department and reassigning the 'duties' to some other various departments.

You know, according to current practices and all.

[Joinfortmill]

17. Throw ICE in goddamn prison.

[Crowman2009]

26. Then have them work private security in some middle of nowhere red shithole..

...for the rest of their life, with no retirement benefits. See how they like it.

[eppur_se_muova]

23. Need to fire everyone in ICE, bring back INS with wholly new personnel.

ICE recruits bullies and abusers.

[Lovie777]

3. Fear-mongering by the current administration..............

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]

4. Cesar Chavez is rolling in his grave...

[MLAA]

5. Signed the pledge, thanks for posting.

[NJCher]

15. I signed, too

Hope to hear something positive out of this and soon.

[MLAA]

19. Great! By the way, I love Cher. Was fortunate enough to see her show once in Las Vegas.

[wolfie001]

9. tRUMP brownshirts

Zero difference at this point.

[Attilatheblond]

10. Here's a link

https://www.ithaca.com/news/regional_news/federal-agents-detain-farmworkers-on-bus-to-work-union-says-immigrant-organizers-targeted/article_94935947-363c-47c8-9f03-5e0efc8a8501.html]

ALBION, N.Y. — Federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farmworkers on their way to work Friday morning and detained between 13 and 15 individuals, many of whom were leaders in a union organizing campaign at Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms, according to the United Farm Workers (UFW) union.

“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. “We’ve already been certified as representing a good chunk of the workers there, the seasonal workers who come in on H-2A visas.

[ReRe]

11. We're all Western NY farm workers now

They need to get their boots off our necks!

[Wild blueberry]

12. Per article, owners may have coordinated with ICE

Signed the pledge. Thank you for alerting us, Omaha Steve.

[Marcuse]

20. That would explain why only the leaders were detained while the rest were free to work the plantation.

[nwliberalkiwi]

13. Defund ICE

If the Dems take the house in the mid term election they should immediately defund ICE.

[Onthefly]

14. ICE is operating illegally as a vigilante force with permission of our dictator.

ICE- Intimidation, Coercion, Extermination. They are the Gestapo and they have added numerous evil, racist, thugs to there ranks.

[Joinfortmill]

16. Lawlessness gone amok. Everything is reminiscent of Hitler.

[Martin68]

18. Some things never change. during a Democratic administration they keep a low profile. during a MAGAt admin they

come out of the woodwork.

[DENVERPOPS]

22. Frightening

"First they came for the union supporters"

[PATRICK]

24. Unique moment coming?

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]

25. Did they use the data F-eloon stole from the Labor Department

to target these people?