Four Woodburn area farmworkers were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers Aug. 7, while on their way to work, according to a state advocacy group.
The arrest happened around 6 a.m. Thursday, as the workers were traveling in a van from Woodburn to Canby to pick berries, according to Innovation Law Lab, a Portland-based organization that represents immigrants and refugees.
“Yesterday morning in Woodburn, ICE agents broke the window of a van carrying Mam-speaking Indigenous farmworkers on their way to pick blueberries. They detained four people and refused them access to legal counsel,” Oregon For All Coalition, a network built to support immigrant and refugee Oregonians post-election, wrote Aug. 8…