(9 Jun 2025)
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San Francisco – 9 June 2025
1. Crowd chants at union rally denouncing ICE raids
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Abel Fuaau, union representative:
"Get out in the streets! Get out to the streets, make some noise, no silence, no compliance, and defiance! Free David Huerta! Free David Huerta! Free David Huerta!"
3. Crowd chants "Free David Huerta"
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Union official translating for union leader Claudia Arevalo:
"What is happening right now as workers is that we’re being confronted. We have Latinos, workers that we represent, crying every day over, what are we going to do? Who will be next? And when will they come for me? These are the questions that we are being confronted with on a daily basis. Workers are not showing up at work. Workers don’t know how they’re gonna make ends meet."
5. California sign in front of California State Building
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rudy Gonzales, union representative:
"You know the time has come for everyday Americans to realize that our society and our democracy is at risk. It is fundamentally under attack by a fascist state and there will be a time when David Huerta is not the only labor leader. History tells us that if we’re complacent, we will be complicit. We have to stand up to ICE, we have to stand up this federal overreach."
7. Drone shot of crowd ++MUTE++
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Annette Wong, Chinese for Affirmative Action:
"And now we’re seeing the authoritarian overreach by the federal administration by bringing in the National Guard to our state, unrequested, uninvited, unwelcome. So let’s be clear, this is not about safety, this isn’t about law and order, this is about fear, it is about control, and it is about scaring our communities out of existence."
9. People holding signs
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Yajaira Cuapio, United Educators of San Francisco:
"And so if you care about free speech, if you’ll care about the first amendment, I urge you to speak out, to be out in the street to defend our right to protest. Because if we allow them to take that away from us, we are not going back and we need to be in the streets."
11. Crowd listening to speaker at union rally
STORYLINE:
Union leaders and immigrant advocates rallied in San Francisco on Monday, denouncing federal immigration raids and supporting union leader David Huerta.
Huerta’s arrest has become a rallying cry for immigrant advocates across the country who called for his release and an end to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
David Huerta, the 58-year-old president of Service Employees International Union California, was arrested Friday while protesting outside a business where federal law enforcement agents were investigating suspected immigration violations, authorities said. He was released from federal custody Monday on a $50,000 bond after a hearing in federal court in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, union members and immigrant advocates led rallies in cities from Los Angeles to New York to call for Huerta’s release. In Boston, hundreds of people gathered in City Hall Plaza, with protesters shouting “Free David, free them all.”
Huerta, a long-time labor leader born and raised in Los Angeles County, has become the face of the pushback against Trump’s effort to drive up immigration arrests. His case has also drawn attention to the longstanding ties between Democratic officials and the union that represents hundreds of thousands of janitors, security officers and other workers across California.
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