Labor Head of David Huert was detained during observation Immigration and customs implementation raids take place in Los Angeles.
Service employees International Union California (Seiu) says his president was injured during Ice raids and calls for his release, NBC4 Los Angeles Reports.
“Seiu California Members call for direct release of our President, David Huerte, which was injured in place of one of the present attacks in Los Angeles. He said medical attention while in custody,” Tia Orr, the CEO of Seiu California.
Mayor Karen Bass He said NBC4 that Huerta scattered the peppers during the incident.
“He works physically well, but I know what the most important thing was affected by him the emotional trauma of watching parents and children separated,” Bass said. “He goes into storing ice and we hope to get him out very fast.”
The mayor said he didn’t know why Huerta was detained.
Seiu issued a statement supported by Huert, insisting that “realizing his first amendment the right to be observed and documented by law enforcement”.
“We are proud of the fair share of the President of Huerte as an observer in the community, in accordance with his debt history for immigrant workers and the greatest values of our movement: standing for the injustice, regardless of personal risk, or the strength was committed,” the union said.
Orr also condemned Ice raids.
“We invite the end of the cruel, destructive and indistricted rations that separate our communities, disrupting our economy and settling all the society, cleaning our jobs and the construction of our homes,” she said.
Bass said that he would meet with immigrant group support groups to discuss the plans for answering situations such as mass attacks in the future.
“My message is to fight for all Angelenos no matter when they arrived, there is paper or not,” she said. “We are a city of immigrants, and that affects hundreds of thousands of angelenos.”
Ice arrested approximately 44 people in Racing on Friday, according to Homeland Security Research.
“Today Ice Officials and Agents with partner law enforcement agencies have been performed in three locations in Central Los Angeles, in the statement,” said updates, “said HSI statement,” said HSI spokesman Yasmeen Pitts O’Keefe in a statement.