PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Legal advocates are sounding the alarm after they say Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a group of farmworkers near Woodburn on their way to work Thursday morning.
According to Innovation Law Lab, the group was detained at around 6 a.m. while en route to blueberry picking work in Canby. They allege ICE agents broke the driver’s side window of the workers’ van, “swarmed the van and ultimately detained four workers–three men and one woman–while releasing two other women and a teenage girl.”
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The blueberry pickers live in Woodburn and are members of the Mam Nation, Indigenous to Guatemala, Innovation Law Lab noted.
Community members who witnessed the detainment called the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition, which led to Innovation Law Lab advocates responding to the Portland ICE facility where the workers were detained…