Biography
Esau Peche Ventura was a Migrant Justice member who took part in a thirteen-mile farmworker-rights march in Vermont on June 17, 2017. The organization’s November 2018 federal complaint states that Border Patrol arrested Esau Peche Ventura and a fellow participant later that day, transferred both to ICE, and held them for several days. The plaintiffs alleged that officials continued detaining them after questioning the legal basis for doing so. The allegation of retaliation is attributed to the complaint rather than presented as a final court finding.
Esau Peche Ventura was a Migrant Justice member who took part in a thirteen-mile farmworker-rights march in Vermont on June 17, 2017. The organization’s November 2018 federal complaint states that Border Patrol arrested Esau Peche Ventura and a fellow participant later that day, transferred both to ICE, and held them for several days. The plaintiffs alleged that officials continued detaining them after questioning the legal basis for doing so. The allegation of retaliation is attributed to the complaint rather than presented as a final court finding. No criminal sentence established. The complaint explicitly documents several days of actual ICE custody following the June 17, 2017 arrest. Initial prison intake and actual release days remain unknown; no exact duration is inferred.
The federal complaint describes continuous immigration detention beginning with the June 17, 2017 Border Patrol arrest, followed by transfer to ICE custody. The complaint documents bond payments but does not specify the day he left custody.