Summary:
Farmworker activist and union leader Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, known in his community as “Lelo,” was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday, March 25, and is being held at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma.
The office of U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Bellingham), who represents northwest Washington, including Skagit County, where Juarez was detained, said that ICE had also detained “several” other community members.
KUOW is working to confirm the number of arrests.
Rosalinda Guillén, a farmworker and political activist in Skagit County, said Juarez is a 25-year-old farmworker and union organizer, and he was detained while driving his partner to her job in the flower fields.
“He tried to defend himself by not speaking to them and refusing to get out of the car, and they broke his car window,” Guillén told KUOW.
“He doesn’t have a criminal record, and we think that they stopped him because of his leadership, because of his activism,” Guillén added. “We’re trying to get him out.”
They’re disappearing political activists.
And Democrats are silent because they somehow believe this isn’t going to escalate to citizens. They’re already revoking permanent visas for bullshit reasons, it’s only a matter of time before they do the same to citizens.
No, Democrats are silent because they know that’s what the winning voters wanted. It’s over. They’ll maybe have a chance again in a few years. That is, if their bodies don’t end up in some mass grave.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
