Immigration Charges: u.s.-Canada Border and Franklin County

immigration charges: Mexican immigrants Yesenia Hernandez-Ramos and Esau Peche-Ventura were arrested Saturday and were being held on immigration charges, the Vermont Department of Corrections said.A U.S. Border Patrol spokesman told Vermont Public Radio they were stopped in a routine check a few miles away from the U.S.-Canada border, according to Metro News. The immigrant rights group Migrant Justice said they were arrested as they were returning to the farm where they work and live in Franklin County. More than two dozen protesters on Monday showed support for two immigrant dairy farmers arrested after marching to a Ben & Jerry's factory to call for better pay and living conditions on farms that provide milk to the ice cream maker. Protesters demonstrated Monday afternoon outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in St. We were there to denounce the arrest of Esau and Yesenia and to call on ICE to use their discretion to release them back to their families, back to their community so they can continue to live and work in Vermont and continue to raise their voice for their dignity and human rights, said Will Lambek, an organizer for Migrant Justice. Albans and in the morning at a correctional facility in South Burlington where Hernandez-Ramos was being held. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.