Lelo Self-Deports: The Washington farmworker and union activist Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino arrested and detained by ICE this March while driving his partner to work in Mount Vernon has decided to leave the country “voluntarily.” Not that anyone who chooses self-deportation has much agency in the context of Trump’s mass deportation plan, but his attorney told The Seattle Times it could make a future return to the US easier. Back in March, activists told me Lelo has been organizing since he was a 14-year-old kid. It’s an enormous loss for farmworkers in Washington, particularly those in his Mexican Mixteco community.
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