Wayne Action for Racial Equality

06/02/2026

Thank you to Alicia Linzy and Wayne County Council for the Arts, Inc. for agreeing to host our meeting and partnering with the group and I on many projects for our WARE groups and our community.

I could tell you story after story about each person at this table and things they have done for our communities. This is what it looks like when a beautiful group of people, with heart, work to uplift the community and do things differently than before - including and working for ALL of us.
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Joey Young
WARE

Last evening, Wayne Action for Racial Equality held their meeting at Wayne Arts to prepare rocks for the upcoming Juneteenth Celebration in Sodus, Unity Day/ Juneteenth celebration in Newark and the Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief event in Lyons on Juneteenth. Many hands did make light work! We hope to see you at one or at all of the community events!

05/29/2026

Dolores Bustamante, a longtime apple picker in upstate New York and advocate for workers' rights, was freed from ICE detention last night.

ICE had previously declined to deport her. The agency tried to do so last month before her attorneys intervened.

https://investigativepost.org/2026/05/28/farm-worker-advocate-dolores-bustamante-freed-from-ice/

05/29/2026

Testament from Dolores about her detention. Interviewed by Berkeley Brean from News 10

05/28/2026

05/28/2026

We rejoice for Dolores and her family as she is released! We pray that she will be able to make a clean break from the immigration system as it continues to make moves today and her lawyers and supporters work for her overall freedom!

The immigration system truly is broken when someone who has come here legally, has followed every rule, and is such a glowing example of such a great citizen and neighbor is not efficiently given citizenship here in 20 years!

America would be LUCKY to have her here for 20 MORE years, then 20 more !!

We rejoice, pray, and continue to advocate for our beautiful friend, Dolores as she is free but not out of the woods as she meets with ICE this morning and continues to fight her case.

HOME IS HERE!! KEEP DOLORES HOME !!🦋💪🏾💜💪🦋

05/28/2026

UPDATE: Dolores made it successfully out of her surprise ICE appointment this morning and remains FREE to fight her immigration case! 🦋 🤲🏾🙏🏽💜🙏
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We rejoice for Dolores and her family as she is released! We pray that she will be able to make a clean break from the immigration system as it continues to make moves today and her lawyers and supporters work for her overall freedom!

The immigration system truly is broken when someone who has come here legally, has followed every rule, and is such a glowing example of such a great citizen and neighbor is not efficiently given citizenship here in 20 years!

America would be LUCKY to have her here for 20 MORE years, then 20 more !!

We rejoice, pray, and continue to advocate for our beautiful friend, Dolores as she is free but not out of the woods as she meets with ICE this morning and continues to fight her case.

HOME IS HERE!! KEEP DOLORES HOME !!🦋💪🏾💜💪🦋

05/28/2026

UPDATE: Dolores made it successfully out of her surprise ICE appointment this morning and remains FREE to fight her immigration case! 🦋 🤲🏾🙏🏽💜🙏
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We rejoice for Dolores and her family as she is released! We pray that she will be able to make a clean break from the immigration system as it continues to make moves today and her lawyers and supporters work for her overall freedom!

The immigration system truly is broken when someone who has come here legally, has followed every rule, and is such a glowing example of such a great citizen and neighbor is not efficiently given citizenship here in 20 years!

America would be LUCKY to have her here for 20 MORE years, then 20 more !!

We rejoice, pray, and continue to advocate for our beautiful friend, Dolores as she is free but not out of the woods as she meets with ICE this morning.

HOME IS HERE!! KEEP DOLORES HOME !!🦋💪🏾💜💪🦋

Federal authorities must confirm by 4:30 p.m. Thursday that Dolores Bustamante is out on supervision.

05/26/2026

Berkeley Breen From news channel 10 has been compiling immigration detention information for our area since Dolores’ detention. He estimates ~600 people have been detained in the Fingerlakes since Trump has taken office.

In Monroe county the immigration detainment has jumped 1,500% under Trump (24 people detained under Biden to 393 people detained under Trump). The great majority of people detained have no prior records or criminal matters pending.

Some of the detainees are children.

Up until the beginning of 2025, ICE detained 24 people in Monroe County. Since then, that number has spiked to 393. But which of them are violent criminals, or even adults?

05/26/2026

A decision on whether to release detained Wayne County farmworker Dolores Bustamante should be made in the next 24 to 48 hours, a federal judge said Tuesday afternoon. Link to story in comments. 🔗⬇️

05/26/2026

FREE DOLORES 🦋 💜📢