Update on Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, currently being held at the NW Detention Center in Tacoma WA.

To our friends, allies, supporters, and community members, we are grateful for the nearly 200 people who responded to our emergency call to action to demonstrate with us outside the ICE Detention Center in Ferndale. A flood of voices also called on WA’s Attorney General and Governor to release Lelo from this unjust detention. Keep up the pressure. This is a time for coordinated action to get him released as soon as possible. 

Our voices are strongest together! Join us in telling ICE: No more! No more attacks on working families! No more attacks on our community members! We are not taking this quietly and as a community we demand the immediate release of Alfredo Juarez!

Collaborate and coordinate for our common purpose: Release Lelo! Release everyone in the NW Detention Center!

Close down this for-profit private prison that breaks up working families!

Whatcom and Skagit county residents are watching ICE and Border Patrol after multiple first-hand reports that ICE is taking people on their way to work and at their workplaces. It is clear that an assault on workers is underway.

Solidarity actions you can do today: 

Join the Washington State Labor Council in a mass solidarity action at the NW Detention Center on Thursday March 27th at 5:30 pm. For more information contact Dulce at (509) 833-3096.

Please call or text this number 360-961-2802 if you are a Whatcom or Skagit county resident and want to watch ICE and Border Patrol, as they watch and assault our communities.

If you are based south of Skagit County (Snohomish, King, Pierce, Thurston and beyond), we are asking you to please show up in solidarity with Lelo at the NW Detention Center in Tacoma ASAP, bring your signs demanding ICE release Alfredo Juarez. Parking is available on the street in front of the prison. If you are traveling via Public Transit: The NWDC is about 1.2 miles from the Tacoma Dome Bus Station, located at 610 Puyallup Avenue, Tacoma, Washington. The address for the facility is 1623 East J Street, Tacoma, WA, 98421. 

Keep calling to demand Lelo’s immediate release!

Call our Congressional Representatives to thank them for working to get Lelo released. Ask them to please keep going:

Food Chain Workers Alliance has put together a petition that sends multiple state elected officials your demand that Lelo be released immediately, as well as connects you with their phone lines: bit.ly/FreeLelo

WA Representative Rick Larson https://larsen.house.gov/contact/contactform.htm?zip5=98281&zip4= | (425) 252-3188

Senator Patty Murray: https://www.murray.senate.gov/write-to-patty/ | (253) 572-3636

Senator Maria Cantwell: https://www.cantwell.senate.gov/contact/email/form | (253) 572-2281

Join our solidarity membership:

https://www.foodjustice.org/solidarity-membership

Donate to support Lelo’s legal defense fund: 

You can donate online via our website: https://www.foodjustice.org/donate-1

Checks can be mailed to: Community to Community Development                                                                                                            PO Box 1646 Bellingham, WA 98227

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