Immigration agents pulled over a van in Marion County on Thursday morning, busted through the driver’s window and detained four farmworkers on the way to their jobs at a blueberry farm, according a legal group representing one of the workers.
All four people — three men and a woman — originally hail from Guatemala and now live in Woodburn, Oregon, said Isa Peña, a spokesperson for Innovation Law Lab. The arrest happened around 6 a.m. Thursday, as they traveled from Woodburn to Canby.
Word of their sudden capture has shot across the migrant community and risks scaring scores of farmworkers in the Willamette Valley as harvest season is underway…