On June 29, New Orleans mother and activist with Congress of Day Laborers (Congreso) Nancy Oliva Baca was arrested by ICE without explanation during a routine check-in. She had been having such “check-ins” at the ICE o ce downtown for years and had no reason to expect this one to be any di erent. However, this visit “coincidentally” happened the day before the huge Freedom for Families march called by Congreso and other working class organizations. Nancy was taken to La Salle Detention Facility in Jena Louisiana, 3 hours from New Orleans where her 3 children remain.
The shady circumstances around her arrest make it clear that it was done by ICE in retaliation for Congreso’s call for a large united demonstration against ICE brutality. These are Gestapo-like tactics to intimidate oppressed communities from standing up for human rights. These intimidation tactics are reason enough to abolish ICE and close down internment camps like La Salle Detention Center.
The Workers Voice has just learned that Nancy was denied a stay of deportation. Stop the deportations! Not one More!