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.
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.
Even if they didn’t, this is not remotely okay, and the vast majority of elected democrats are either silent or actively working with the fascists.
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.Immigration records confirm Juarez had a standing deportation order from 2018.
This isn’t even news.
It is when the fascists are disappearing union organizers to prisons run by dictators in other countries.
It is not when they only randomly happen to be activists. They are deporting anyone they can.
