Alfredo Juarez will self-deport to Mexico in order to get out of the Northwest Detention Center. His lawyer said he couldn’t bear to be there any longer.
TACOMA, Wash. — A prominent farm worker activist Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez who ICE detained in March will self-deport to Mexico in order to get out of the Northwest Detention Center, his attorney announced Monday.
Juarez’s lawyer Larkin VanDerhoef said Juarez couldn’t bear to be inside the detention facility any longer, and applying for asylum would have meant weeks or months more in detention while he waited for the application to be processed.
Juarez requested to voluntarily depart to
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