Farm worker activist Alfredo Juarez to self-deport in order to get out of Northwest Detention Center

Sedro-Woolley farmworker activist to voluntarily leave U.S.

TACOMA — Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino, a 25-year-old union farmworker activist who has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for nearly four months, decided Monday to leave the country voluntarily.

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by Vivian McCall 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. B…

Brother Lelo will voluntarily depart

“No matter where I end up, I will continue fighting for justice alongside all of you.” TACOMA, WA (July 15, 2025) — After months of detainment in notoriously inhumane conditions, Alfredo ‘Lelo’ Juarez Zeferino requested and was granted voluntary departure at his Monday morning hearing. Juarez Zeferino, a member of Familias Unidas por la Justicia […] The post Brother Lelo will voluntarily depart appeared first on The STAND.

Washington farm labor organizer ends his deportation fight after 4 months in ICE detention

His ongoing detention this year sparked protests by union and immigrant rights groups outside the Tacoma detention center, including a vigil on the day of his hearing where a crowd chanted “free them all.”

WA farm labor organizer ends his deportation fight after 4 months in ICE detention

A well-known farm labor organizer in Washington’s Skagit Valley, Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, has decided to give up his deportation fight for now and return to Mexico.

WA farmworker activist arrested by ICE to voluntarily leave U.S.

During an immigration court hearing on Monday, Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino elected to leave the country for Mexico by “voluntary departure.”