Sixteen immigrant Oregonians, including farmworkers, were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Salem on Tuesday, advocates said.

In one of the incidents in the early morning hours, ICE smashed the windows of a van with people who were on their way to work, according to statement from Latinos Unidos Siempre, a group that develops Latino youth leadership, the farmworkers union Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste, known as PCUN, and Oregon for All, a coalition of more than 100 organizations.

Advocates with the organizations said Tuesday’s arrests represent the highest one-day total of immigration arrests for the city in many years.

“These were Oregonians taken from the heart of Salem’s close-knit Latino community,” Reyna Lopez, president and executive director

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