Grocery Update: Action Needed! Support Detained Farmworker Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez.
Our Wonderful Federal Government Is Targeting Farmworker Leaders For Deportation. Not On Our Watch!
Four Ways To Support Detained Farmworker And Community Organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez.
Friends,
We need to demand the immediate release of Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, a dedicated and long-time farmworker leader and organizer in Washington State.
On March 25, 2025, Lelo was violently detained by ICE while driving his partner to her workplace. ICE agents broke his car window when Lelo tried to exercise his rights. He is currently detained inside an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington.
Lelo has been a farmworker and community leader in Washington since he was 12 years old, and has worked tirelessly for immigrant and farmworker rights. He was one of the initial founders of the independent union Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ), where he helped agricultural workers win paid breaks and overtime. As an organizer with Community to Community Development (C2C), he has been involved in multiple campaigns, most recently working on educating the community and legislators about the H-2A program.
ICE may have targeted Lelo for his leadership in standing up for farmworkers and immigrants in his community. The Trump Administration's mass deportation plan is not only harming individuals and families, but being used as a tool to silence dissenting union and worker leader voices like Lelo's.
We are calling on U.S. Representative Rick Larsen and U.S. Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell to do everything they can to get Lelo free now, and to investigate the potential political motivations for his detention.
1. Send an email with this link.
2. Make calls to the offices below to make this ask loud and clear.
We must take action together against a deportation system that targets community leaders like Lelo for his work defending the rights of immigrants and workers.
Washington Attorney General's office: 360-753-6200
Washington State Governor’s office: 360-902-4111
Representative Rick Larson: (425) 252-3188
Senator Patty Murray: (253) 572-3636
Senator Maria Cantwell: (253) 572-2281
And a new tool is now live that will help folks make the calls automatically. You can access that link after the tool sends your email, here.
3. Donate. Community to Community Development is collecting contributions for Lelo’s legal defense fund. '
You can donate via their website at this link, or mail a check to:
Community to Community Development
PO Box 1646 Bellingham, WA 98227
Stay up-to-date on Lelo's case by following Community to Community Development on Facebook and Instagram.
4. Learn More and Spread the Word:
ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley (Seattle Times)
Prominent Northwest Washington immigration activist detained by ICE (Cascadia Daily)
Detienen agentes migratorios a líder ñuu savi de Guerrero en EU (Quadratin Guerrero)
Independent Farmworker Union, Familias Unidas Por La Justicia (FUJ).
Thank you, y’all are the best!
peace.
Errol Schweizer, Publisher.
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