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.”
It’s like watching inevitability play out. This is how it has happened before. It’ll happen this way again. Because despite the slogan, people do forget.
We have a bunch of old motherfuckers in office whose parents and grandparents lived through WW2 and they are already letting those sacrifices be in vain. If it was some Gen Z kid saying “Nazis never did anything to me, imma see how this plays out,” I’d think they were morons, but I’d sort of get that Nazis seem almost cartoonish. They are! Fucking Pepe memes and a meme-president. This will all look like a joke in 100 years, too.
But I digress, these old fucks (I say this as I’m nearing my old fuck era) are failing the one God dammed task they ought to be best suited for as they grew up in the shadow of the war.