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.
The raid did not appear to be a broad sweep but rather a targeted enforcement aimed at specific people, according to sources who have been in contact with the families and spoke to The Intercept on condition of anonymity to candidly discuss a sensitive legal situation.
“At first we thought they were enforcing a deportation order, that they had one person that they’re looking for and then everyone else got dragged in — that’s kind of standard,” said one of the people with knowledge of the raid. “But this was strange because they actually had a list of most of the workers on the bus.”
“Arrests” my ass.
“Illegally kidnaps and detains” would be the correct words.
Illegally
At some point, a system is what it does. Complaining that the police are acting illegally is meaningless when they’re never the ones who see the back side of a prosecutor or the inside of a jail cell.
These arrests are legal until someone in the government stops them. The US government wants to end these labor organizations, it wants to permanently imprison these labor activists, and it wants to terrorize the working class into a subsistence state of living. These actions aren’t “illegal” in any practical sense. They are the law.
So the article says the detained workers were authorized to be in the country. It doesn’t sound like anyone has said why they’re being detained. Not to oversell it, but that seems like classic tyranny.
It says why they’re being detained: attempting to unionize
Hey Chuck Schumer. Is it time for you to do something yet?Have they crossed enough of a line? Let us know, you useless disingenuous sack.
He’s got his glasses on his nose and a weakly worded statement ready to go.
I don’t even think he’s bothered with the statement this time
at this point i think it’s clear that the only thing cuck schumer cares about is funneling weapons to israel. as long as that spice flows he’s willing to be complicit with anything
Perhaps it’s time to remind people that the date of celebration of labour day in most of the world on May 1st. was chosen to commemorate the American Haymarket affair in 1886.
