Around 100 people gathered in central Phoenix on June 8, 2025, at an event organized by the Phoenix chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation to call for the release of Joel Gutierrez, an undocumented man taken by ICE agents last week, and to protest Trump’s immigration policies. Photo by Emily Holshouser | Arizona Mirror
In the early hours of June 4, 48-year-old Joel Gutierrez was driving his coworker to a home they were renovating in Phoenix when their work van was stopped by U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement officers.
Agents pulled Gutierrez and his coworker out of the van and arrested them. ICE agents scattered Neatly stacked papers and a packed lunchbox throughout the car…