Ice's 'inhumane' arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) In the early morning hours of 12 June, Moises Sotelo woke up to go to work in the rolling hills of Oregon’s Willamette Valley wine country, a place he has called home for decades.

But this morning was not business as usual. A car tailed Sotelo as soon as he left his driveway, according to an account from his coworker. Trucks surrounded him just outside of St Michael’s Episcopal church, where he was detained by federal immigration agents. By the end of the day, Sotelo was in an Ice detention facility.

“He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”

His detention has sent shockwaves through the tight-knit Oregon wine community. Sotelo is a fixture of local industry – in 2020 he was awarded with the Vineyard Excellence Award from the Oregon Wine Board and in 2024 he established his own small business maintaining vineyards. .................(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/oregon-vineyard-manager-arrest-ice

[LaRaven]

1. This truly breaks my heart ...

And makes me so angry! We know who the Real Criminals are and they need to be locked up! This is all so cruel and wrong.

His detention has sent shockwaves through the tight-knit Oregon wine community. Sotelo is a fixture of local industry – in 2020 he was awarded with the Vineyard Excellence Award from the Oregon Wine Board and in 2024 he established his own small business maintaining vineyards.

“We built this country on the backs of immigrant labor … To just round them up like criminals and throw them into these overcrowded detention centers, send them packing without telling their family or attorneys where they are or where they’re going, it’s inhumane. It’s a human rights issue.”

Something’s gotta give to Stop this Madness.

(flagpoles, seriously )

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Regime Change

And then bring the maga Repubs to heel. On this Juneteenth remember -

The CSA never went away.

They went underground.

They re-emerged in 2015.

It's enough. This time no voting, no office held for any magas. Nuremberg style trials and swift justice. We do NOT have to go back to the status quo of being manipulated by the legacy media and maga repubs to be gracious winners.

We win - we dominate - and never this way pass again. Germany did not go back to a republic on May 1, 1945. The wall didn't fall until 1989.
Rwanda is STILL having reconciliation trials.

We can do that and still be a democracy.

[Amaryllis]

12. What is CSA?

[littlemissmartypants]

13. Confederate States of America

[tulipsandroses]

2. Another dangerous person captured

We are all safer now. Insert sarcasm thingy.
It was always a lie that they were going after dangerous criminals.

[Wingus Dingus]

3. Sounds like a bad dude. Thank god he was apprehended before

he did any more damage.

[Historic NY]

4. For a DUI that doesn't seem to exist...

How many Republicans serving have been arrested for DUI?

[Bev54]

7. DUI's are nothing to them, so many have far worse records with devious sexual and fraud crimes.

Including the top one.

[ashredux]

6. Obviously MS13....🤦‍♂️

[Marcuse]

8. Obviously a dangerous drug trafficker. American lives will be saved.

[littlemissmartypants]

15. Kind of a mixed message but I get your point and it's a very valid one.

Alcohol abuse has been on the rise for a few years now. It's being glamorized again. Covid didn't help and it's So addictive.

[nuxvomica]

9. The agents actually said asking questions was "assault"

I underlined it in this excerpt rom the Guardian article:

Victoria Reader, who works for Sotelo as a vineyard manager, would know. She was in the car on 6 June, a week before Sotelo’s arrest, when another employee was also taken. Reader says that agents were masked and refused to identify themselves.

“They didn’t identify themselves. They just came out. They didn’t even say anything. They just started trying to open the doors,” Reader said. “I kept asking, who are you? What are you doing? And they wouldn’t answer.”

Reader said that agents would not tell her what immigration laws her employee violated, threatened her with assault of an officer for asking questions and told her she was not allowed to follow their cars or know where her employee was being taken.

[Ohioboy]

10. Meanwhile a convicted felon sits in the White House

[Safe as Milk]

11. ICE is the enemy of the people. There's no question about it.

By extension, Trump is the enemy of the people. Full stop.

[markie]

14. ICE's inhumane behavior

ought to shake every person to their core....

[BidenRocks]

16. Did I miss it?

Where in the OP does it state his status as citizen or migrant.
It matters as citizens are now targets.

[Native]

18. his family asserts he entered the US in the early 1990s, and ICE says he entered illegally in 2006. But does it really

matter? They can take anyone they choose to take.

[BidenRocks]

25. ICE hit my Home Depot in San Fernando

and Loews in Pacoima. This along with ICE across the street at a plumbing supply.
End this chumpian nightmare!
He knows how tight Mexican families are and is intentionally hurting them.

They tried to get into Dodger Stadium this morning and were turned back.
No kudos for the Dodger org as they have been silent on this. Yesterday the Mexican fans were talking a boycott of the games. That is a huge chunk in LA. Only then, today did they speak out. Other teams have already done so.

Another day of being angry. I'm almost looking for a magat to punch. So tired of this shit.

[Skittles]

27. righteous rant, BidenRocks

we are all soooo very tired of this shit and we're not even six months into Trump.2

[Native]

30. LA is a preview of what's to come for all of us.

[Native]

17. Bottom line - they can pick anyone up off the streets for any reason and then just fucking lie about it all.

No one is safe. It doesn't matter if you're a citizen of this country, it doesn't matter if you have identification to prove that, nothing matters when they can grab you, shackle you, throw you in a van and whisk you away to parts unknown, asserting that they are required to tell no one where they've taken you. And if your family or attorney hit back, they come back at you with bullshit charges. How can anyone fight that?

[Farmer-Rick]

19. So, waiting for Melania to smack pedo Trump's hand away

Once too often. Then Ice will drag her angry ass away too, along with her string migrating parents and anchor baby. Those Slavic features have that foreign look to them too.

And all those illegal workers Trump hires for that sinking Miami hotel he lives in. Just a matter of time.........

[Native]

20. I wouldn't be surprised - I mean his last wife is in a weed patch on one of his golf courses.

[Demovictory9]

23. And not tell your family: "In response to a Guardian inquiry about whether Ice had no obligation to inform families and

Last edited Thu Jun 19, 2025, 07:30 PM - Edit history (1)

In response to a Guardian inquiry about whether Ice had no obligation to inform families and attorneys of a detainees status, a spokesperson for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) replied, “that is correct”

[Native]

24. Exactly - Poof, you're gone.

[Skittles]

28. inhumane and unconstitiutonal

what the FUCK is going on

[Initech]

21. Fuck this administration to the hottest circle of hell.

[Demovictory9]

22. In response to a Guardian inquiry about whether Ice had no obligation to inform families and attorneys of a detainees st

In response to a Guardian inquiry about whether Ice had no obligation to inform families and attorneys of a detainees status, a spokesperson for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) replied, “that is correct”

[riversedge]

26. "When a large part of the workforce is afraid to come to work or of being detained, everything is affected," King said.

“When a large part of the workforce is afraid to come to work or of being detained, everything is affected,” King said.

In a statement sent to local outlet KGW, Ice alleged that Sotelo “first entered the United States illegally in 2006” and has a “criminal conviction for DUI in Newberg, Oregon”. Sotelo’s family says that he came to the United States in the early 1990s. The Yamhill county district attorney’s office told local outlets that they had found no evidence of DUI charges.

Sotelo was first taken to a detention facility in Portland. By the weekend, he was in an Ice processing center in Tacoma, Washington. On Tuesday, Van Nice drove up to Tacoma to visit his friend. But Sotelo wasn’t there.

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Victoria Reader (center) works with Moises Sotelo. ‘He took me under his wing and made Oregon feel like home,’ she said. Photograph: Courtesy of the family

On Wednesday morning, Ice’s detainee locator showed that Sotelo had been moved more than 1,500 miles south-west to the Akima-run Florence service processing center in the Arizona desert. Ice did not notify the family or their lawyers about the relocation.

[Evolve Dammit]

29. Violently fucking up families, community members, dedicated employees and our economy. Fuck ICE.

[live love laugh]

31. Surely he has an M-13 tattoo or sports team hat as a giveaway like Garcia

[wolfie001]

32. It takes decades to master this expertise

He's aware of the local grapes and conditions. Truly a master vintner. This is calculated cruelty that will destroy that label. Stupid white christian nationalism, or christian Talibanism.