“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.
AN IMMIGRATION RAID in western New York on Friday targeted a group of immigrants involved in a landmark statewide effort by farm workers to unionize.
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.
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