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UFW Members Detained by ICE; U.S. in Talks with African Nations over Accepting Deportees

HeadlineMay 06, 2025

In western New York, advocates are demanding the release of a group of labor leaders and members of the United Farm Workers who were taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a raid Friday. At least 14 employees of Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms were arrested that day and are now being jailed at an ICE facility in the city of Batavia. ICE agents reportedly had a list of names, taking the workers in unmarked vans. Meanwhile, Trump officials are in talks with several African nations, including Rwanda, Angola and Equatorial Guinea, to accept immigrants who are deported from the United States. The Trump administration has already made similar agreements with some Latin American countries, including El Salvador, where hundreds of Venezuelans were sent and imprisoned in March.

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