Union describes ICE raid on Swift as overblown - Greeley, Colorado

“The cases are so widespread, they say, the workload is straining resources to process the detainees. Additional criminal charges will be forthcoming as the 1,300 detained Swift workers nationwide — and 261 from the Greeley plants — are interviewed, officials said.

But Ernest L. Duran Jr., president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, the union for the Greeley plant workers, said at a Friday press conference that the raids resulted in only a “handful of legitimate arrests.”

The union argued that only 10 people in Colorado have faced advisement hearings so far. Five detainees appeared at the Weld County Courthouse Thursday, followed by five more on Friday.”

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