José Víctor García Díaz
Biography
José Víctor García Díaz is a Migrant Justice farmworker organizer arrested by ICE on April 21, 2016. He became a plaintiff in litigation alleging retaliation for labor and immigrant-rights advocacy. By October 2020 he was publicly participating in the settlement campaign. The federal agreement included compensation and time-limited protection from deportation; it did not establish liability by a trial verdict.
Case history and verification
José Víctor García Díaz is a Migrant Justice farmworker organizer arrested by ICE on April 21, 2016. He became a plaintiff in litigation alleging retaliation for labor and immigrant-rights advocacy. By October 2020 he was publicly participating in the settlement campaign. The federal agreement included compensation and time-limited protection from deportation; it did not establish liability by a trial verdict.
Status reviewed October 8, 2026: Historical case. The profile records the last documented outcome; no current ICE custody is asserted.
Sources
Verified detail sources (October 8, 2026): The November 14, 2018 Migrant Justice complaint, paragraph 12, provides the named plaintiff’s biography and explicitly uses he/him. The identity matches the existing Vermont organizing and detention case. Source 1.
Photo source: VTDigger. Photo by Migrant Justice. Source image reproduced without alteration.
The November 2018 Migrant Justice complaint alleges that ICE agents seized García Díaz’s Coalition of Immokalee Workers identification card and Vermont Driver Privilege Card during his April 21, 2016 interrogation, and had not returned either document when the complaint was filed. It quotes his arrest paperwork identifying him as a prominent public Migrant Justice member. These are the plaintiffs’ allegations and descriptions of records, not a finding of liability; the already verified custody dates remain unchanged.
