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SEIU protests immigrant worker detentions, demands releases
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Massimo Mensi Director of Professionals and Managers | UNI Global Union

UNI Global Union's U.S. affiliate, SEIU, is staging protests across the country against the detention of immigrant workers, including SEIU members. The protests demand the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a member of SEIU Local 509 and a Tufts University graduate student, who was detained in Boston by federal agents last month.

SEIU President April Verrett stated that Ozturk was "snatched by masked federal immigration authorities on Tuesday night on her way to Ramadan services. Her arrest, with no charges filed, is yet another chilling example of this administration’s efforts to use immigration actions to target and silence people merely for criticizing U.S. policy in the Middle East. Ozturk, from Turkey, had a valid student visa, and her lawyer has no idea where she has been taken or why, though she had recently co-authored an op-ed in the student newspaper in support of the people of Palestine."

The U.S. government has not provided any evidence to justify Ozturk's detention. The Washington Post reported on a leaked State Department memo that found no wrongdoing by Ozturk and suggested that her arrest might have been politically motivated.

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UNI Global Union General Secretary Christy Hoffman commented, "The U.S. Secretary of State is using the power of his office to silence a graduate student over an op-ed. It’s as chilling as it is appalling. If Rumeysa is not safe, nobody is."

SEIU is also calling for the release of Llewellyn Dixon, a member of SEIU 925. Dixon has been detained since February after being arrested by ICE on her return from the Philippines, although she is a 50-year green card holder and a University of Washington employee.

On April 1, SEIU displayed the slogans "Free Speech, Free Workers" on their headquarters in Washington, D.C. Local SEIU branches, including 32BJ SEIU, engaged in actions to demand the release of Ozturk and Dixon from ICE custody.

Support for Ozturk's release is growing, with the governor of Massachusetts, the mayor of Boston, and groups across the political spectrum, including Jewish and Republican student organizations at Tufts, backing her freedom.

Recently, 27 Jewish organizations in the U.S., such as the Jewish Labor Committee chaired by RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum, submitted an amicus brief supporting Ozturk's release. They stated, "[T]he images of Öztürk’s arrest in twenty-first century Massachusetts evoke the oppressive tactics employed by the authoritarian regimes that many ancestors of amici’s members left behind in Odessa, Kishinev and Warsaw, among a great many others. To watch state authorities undermine the same fundamental rights that empowered so many Jewish Americans is chilling; to know it is being done in the name of the Jewish people is profoundly disturbing."

The SEIU urges support for Rumeysa's legal fund.

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