“We will not be intimidated”: Dems support labor leader facing federal charges after ICE protest

The leader of the union, David Heareta, has The accusation was made With a crime conspiracy to impeded an officer, following his arrest during the ice protest in Los Angeles.

The head of the California branch of international service employees was arrested on Friday during In protest against a migration raid At the work site in the center of Los Angeles. Video of arrest It appears that Hueta is pushed on the ground by agents and handcuffs.

The Heareta Union said in a statement that Hyrta was a “community observer” during the raid. American lawyer Bill Essly He wrote on X that Hueta interfered with federal officers And “obstructing their arrival deliberately by preventing their car.” Huerta was released from the reservation on a bond of $ 50,000 on Monday. If convicted, Hyrta may face up to six years in prison.

“What happened to me is not about me, this is a much larger thing. This is how to lock us as a society and the injustice that occurs,” hella said in a statement.

Since the arrest of Hyrta, work organizers across the country have expressed their support.

“David was practicing his constitutional rights and conducting the legal observation of the ice activity in his community. He was doing what he always did, and what we do in the unions: put in solidarity in practice and defend our working colleagues,” He said in a statement.

California Gavin New Ruler Other elected officials also talked about the arrest of Herta.

“No one should be harmed to see government measures,” newsom wrote on X.

The leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, DN.Y. , To acquit Hueta in a statement.

“This is the United States of America and we will not be afraid by a chief dictator in the executive branch,” he wrote. “The Democrats in the House of Representatives will stand with David Heareta as long as it takes until the charges are dropped, and the rogue federal procedures that have been fully launched will be investigated.”