SOLIDARITY ALERT: Retired IFPTE President, Paul Shearon, Joins Rally in Support of Union Organizer, Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino

Retired IFPTE President, Brother Paul Shearon, joined a protest last week at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, in support of Union organizer, Lelo Juarez, where he and other immigrants are being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Despite the efforts of the labor movement, Lelo Juarez, who is a farmworker organizer with Familias Unidas por la Justicia, subsequently decided to voluntarily leave the United States. Shearon, who is an immigrant himself from Liverpool, England, commented: “This is a nation of immigrants, including myself, and it is important that our society and our labor movement stand up strong for justice and against the ICE detentions of these innocent immigrant workers. This is simply un-American.”

Labor Notes published an April article entitled ICE Can’t Erase What Lelo Built. See the article here.