We are heartbroken and outraged to learn that Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez was violently detained by ICE while dropping his partner off at work. He is reportedly being held at a private detention facility in Tacoma, Washington.

Lelo is a community organizer, Indivisible group member, and fierce advocate for farmworker and immigrant justice — and most of all, a human being who deserves respect and justice. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/ice-arrests-wa-farmworker-activist-in-sedro-woolley/

Indivisibles across WA have already jumped into action, joining mobilizations to demand his release and calling on their elected officials to intervene. Our movement stands firmly behind these demands, and links arms with those opposing the Trump administration's inhumane treatment of our neighbors.

We join the pleas of Washington Indivisibles that members of WA’s congressional delegation do everything in their power to ensure Lelo's rights are protected and he is released.

Trump, and authoritarians like him, want us to be afraid. Unmarked agents of the state grabbing our friends and neighbors off the street and hauling them off to prison sites is a deliberate strategy to quash dissent and stoke fear. We won't stand for it, and we will only fight back harder until everyone involved in this cruelty is thrown out of power.

Please follow leaders on the ground with Community to Community for additional ways you can support. https://www.foodjustice.org/

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Community to Community Development is a women-led grassroots organization dedicated to food sovereignty and immigrant rights.

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