https://www.kuow.org/stories/ice-detains-farmworker-activist-in-northwest-washington-state
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.”
Immigration records confirm Juarez had a standing deportation order from 2018. The Bellingham Herald reported in 2015 that he was first sent to the Tacoma detention center in June of that year, when he was pulled over by police for driving the wrong way on a one-way street. The police then called immigration enforcement.
Juarez received Whatcom County’s Dotty Dale Youth Peacemaker Award in 2023 for his volunteer work and worker organizing in three languages — English, Spanish, and Mixteco.
“The Trump administration and ICE have claimed that they are going after ‘the worst of the worst’ — but there is no indication that Alfredo Juarez Zeferino and the other people detained today represent the worst of the worst,” Rep. Larsen said in a statement. “Immigrating to the United States is legal. Union organizing is legal.”
Sanctioned by DT and VP, partially funded by America.
[…]Tommy said his commander ordered his unit to use Gazan civilians to search buildings for explosives instead of dogs.
"They were Palestinian," he said. "We sent them in first to see if the building was clear and check for booby traps…They were trembling and shaking."
"We talked to our commander, and we asked him to stop doing it," Tommy said, but they were ordered to continue. He told CBS News it was policy.
The IDF would not confirm if it was investigating any other reported instances of its forces using the "mosquito protocol," but we discovered that Israeli forces are using the same Gaza playbook in the occupied West Bank, where a massive offensive has seen forces blow up homes and displace more than 40,000 people for over two months.
In the West Bank, CBS News met 14-year-old Omri Salem, a studious kid who dreams of being an engineer. His family has been in the area for generations. He told CBS News that, along with his nine-year old cousin, he was ordered by the IDF to search a four-story apartment building.
He didn't want to do it.
"I was so scared," he said. "Then they started beating us." Omri remains deeply emotionally scarred by the soldiers, whom he says forced him at gun point to be their human shield.
In Gaza, Tommy was the one holding the gun, but he said he was also traumatized.
I'm morally wounded," said the soldier.
"It's f****d up, you know, to use citizens as your human shield like a dog."
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The websites have people coordinating carpools and bus shuttles so there are options if you really want to attend. If not, find other ways to get involved.