Seven farmworkers detained by ICE in Yakima orchard raid
At least seven undocumented farmworkers were arrested by federal officers while working in an orchard in the Naches Heights area outside Yakima on a Wednesday morning, according to the Yakima Immigrant Response Network (YIRN). Family members told YIRN that authorities lined up workers, handcuffed them, and questioned them about their immigration status; those detained were not H-2A visa holders. Evans Fruit, the orchard company, said officers had entered its property while pursuing a fugitive with an active warrant and that none of its own pickers were arrested. YIRN volunteers gathered information from affected families and deposited funds into detainees' commissary accounts, while the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project pledged to provide legal counsel to those detained.
