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July 22, 2025, update: <\/b>Farmworker organizer Alfredo \u201cLelo\u201d Juarez Zeferino has returned to his hometown in Mexico. Zeferino was arrested earlier this year in Washington state, where he was held in federal custody. He requested voluntary departure from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on July 14, according to a statement<\/a> issued by Community to Community, which had been advocating for his release. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>

In response to federal immigration enforcement targeting farmworkers<\/a> and their communities around the country, the United Farm Workers union (UFW) organized a demonstration in New York today, challenging Trump administration immigration policies and calling for the release and a halt to the deportation of farmworkers already detained.<\/p><\/div>

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The union has been organizing demonstrations all week, following the arrests of 14 farmworkers in western New York<\/a> last Friday. They are organizing at an ICE detention center in Batavia, New York, today to \u201cdemand the release of detained farmworker leaders,\u201d according to calls to action from the UFW.<\/p>\n

The UFW demonstrations come on the heels of another protest, this one in Washington state yesterday morning, where civil rights groups are also demanding the release of detained farmworkers<\/a>, including a union organizer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe in the labor movement know all too well: an attack on the rights of any worker is an attack on the rights of every worker.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In both cases, unions say workers appear to have been targeted by agents for their organizing.<\/p>\n

Across the country, federal agents for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have detained farmworkers and union organizers amid a wider immigration sweep, in line with President Donald Trump\u2019s policy agenda. Nearly 50,000 were being held in CBP and ICE detention<\/a> in April. It is unclear exactly how many are farmworkers or labor organizers, but such arrests have been confirmed in California, New York, Vermont, Washington.<\/p>\n

In California, Border Patrol agents made 78 arrests in Kern County, targeting a Home Depot, a convenience store frequented by farmworkers on their way to work, and drivers on roads running between farms, CalMatters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Vermont, at least three dairy workers have already been deported<\/a> to Mexico after nine arrests there in April. Migrant Justice, a Vermont-based human rights organization, says thousands of people marched<\/a> against ICE detentions last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cICE has deported three farmworkers without due process, in clear violation of their rights,\u201d Brett Stokes, a professor at Vermont Law who leads the legal team representing eight of the farmworkers, said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cWe will fight for justice for those unjustly deported and will continue to move for the release of those still in detention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arbey Lopez-Lopez, who was detained separately from the other eight, has a hearing scheduled with an immigration judge May 15. \u201cThe remaining farmworkers in detention have yet to receive a hearing date,\u201d Migrant Justice said.<\/p>\n

In New York, on the morning of May 2, federal agents pulled over a bus full of farmworkers in Albion, west of Rochester, detaining 14 employees of Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms. The UFW says the agents had a list of names<\/a>, including union leaders who had been organizing at the farm. Those were the workers detained, the union said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur top priority right now is to get these workers out. We are doing everything we can think of to accomplish that,\u201d UFW Secretary Treasurer Armando Elenes said. \u201cIn this case, some of the workers who were detained were actively involved in organizing their workplace. We still have more questions than answers on how they came to be targeted . . . but if any workers at any company are ever targeted for immigration enforcement because of their involvement in union organizing, that would be a violation of our Constitution\u2019s first amendment: the right to freedom of association, including with your union.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Washington state this week, organizers are calling for the release of Alfredo \u201cLelo\u201d Juarez, a farmworker and organizer for Familias Unidas Por La Justicia (FUJ), who is being held at a detention center in Tacoma. Family members say Juarez was violently detained by ICE agents, who smashed his car window prior to arresting him.<\/p>\n

Edgar Franks, an organizer at FUJ, told Truthout<\/a> that the union believes Juarez\u2019s detention was \u201cpolitically motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe he was targeted,\u201d Franks said. \u201cThe way that ICE detained him was meant to intimidate. They hardly gave him any chance to defend himself or explain. He wasn\u2019t resisting, and he just asked to see the warrant. They asked to see his ID, and right when he was reaching for it, they broke his car window. The ICE agents escalated really fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

The manner of the arrest was not unique, Franks said. \u201cIn past years, we\u2019ve seen people getting pulled over and asked for their documents, but now it\u2019s becoming more aggressive. ICE is harassing and intimidating people and not even showing warrants. It\u2019s free rein for ICE to do whatever they want.\u201d<\/p>\n

An ICE spokesperson told Civil Eats Juarez had been ordered removed to his home country by an immigration judge in 2018. \u201cU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a joint federal law enforcement arrest of Juarez in Sedro Woolley, Washington, March 25, where he refused to comply with lawful commands to exit the vehicle he was occupying at the time of the arrest.\u201d Juarez will remain in ICE custody \u201cpending removal proceedings,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

All of these arrests and protests come amid ongoing scrutiny of Trump\u2019s immigration policies and widespread concern for farmworkers in agriculture.<\/p>\n

Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins faced questions from the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, including questions about farmworkers and immigration crackdowns. Rollins told lawmakers she had had lengthy conversations with President Donald Trump about the issue and that the president understands the importance of immigrant farmworkers. \u201cThe larger effort to reform our immigration system to better serve our farmers and our ranchers is a priority,\u201d Rollins said.<\/p>\n

Labor organizers say the immigration crackdown is making their work harder\u2014and more necessary. The New York arrests, for example, show \u201cwhy workers who may be facing this more hostile anti-immigrant climate nationally can really benefit from having a union that\u2019s able and willing to go to bat for them,\u201d Elenes at UFW said. \u201cWe in the labor movement know all too well: an attack on the rights of any worker is an attack on the rights of every worker.\u201d<\/p>\n

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July 22, 2025, update: Farmworker organizer Alfredo \u201cLelo\u201d Juarez Zeferino has returned to his hometown in Mexico. Zeferino was arrested earlier this year in Washington state, where he was held in federal custody. 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