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“THEY ACTUALLY HAD A LIST”: ICE ARRESTS WORKERS INVOLVED IN
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Noah Hurowitz
May 5, 2025
The Intercept
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_ “We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly
pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in
western New York. _

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attend a meeting
before a raid on Jan. 26, 2025, in Chicago., Christopher
Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images

 

An immigration raid in western New York on Friday targeted a group of
immigrants involved in a landmark statewide effort by farm workers to
unionize.

On Friday morning at around 9:30 a.m., federal agents in unmarked cars
and bearing no agency insignia pulled over a bus in Albion, New York,
about 35 miles west of Rochester, and took 14 people of Lynn-Ette &
Sons Farms into custody. All of the detainees, who hailed from Mexico
and Guatemala, were year-round employees of Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms, a
family-owned business in nearby Kent, New York, which has been locked
in a multiyear battle to prevent workers from unionizing.

The company is one of five agricultural businesses that, together with
a state growers’ association, have tried for years to overturn or
chip away at New York’s 2019 farm labor law. The law enshrined
protections for the right of farmworkers — whether seasonal or
year-round — to seek union representation.

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