Sarah Lazare at In These Times reports Federal Immigration Agents have abducted Eustaquio Orozco Verdusco, a Workers’ Rights Organizer well known in Minnesota for fighting wage theft and labor trafficking. He is currently held at the Cibola County Correctional Center in New Mexico, run by CoreCivic - one of the largest private prison companies in the U.S. Orozco Verdusco organizes with Centro De Trabajadores Unidos En La Lucha (CTUL), a Worker Center based in Minneapolis that has recently mobilized against Federal Immigration Agents’ abduction of Construction Workers from their job sites. He is also a member of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), which advocates for the rights of Latino Workers, and is part of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, which opposes unjust immigration policies. Orozco Verdusco was abducted in the Trump Administration’s so-called ​“Operation Metro Surge,” where, since December, thousands of masked and armed Federal Agents have descended on Minnesota. They have raided homes and childcare centers, abducted young children, tear-gassed high school students, and killed two residents and observers, Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Orozco Verdusco’s organizations and the wider community, deeply rattled by his detention for about a month, have been demanding his immediate release. Dozens of organizations and individuals have written letters of support and a petition ​“to demand his immediate release and stop his deportation” has more than 3,000 signatures. 

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