About 100 protest detention of Vermont farm worker advocates

Demonstrators hold signs and chant outside the JFK Federal Building, Monday, March 27, 2017, in Boston, to protest the detention by federal immigration officials of two advocates for Vermont dairy farm workers. Jose Enrique Balcazar Sanchez and Zully Victoria Palacios Rodriguez were arrested earlier this month as they left the office of the organization Migrant Justice in Burlington, Vt. Immigration and Customs Enforcement allege that they are both in the U.S. illegally. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) (The Associated Press)

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Lymarie Deida, right, is hugged by a supporter as she waits to enter the JFK Federal Building, Monday, March 27, 2017, in Boston, where a bail hearing for her husband, Alex Carrillo, was to take place. . Carrillo, an undocumented Vermont farm worker, and two advocates for Vermont dairy farm workers have been detained by federal immigration officials. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) (The Associated Press)

Lymarie Deida stands with her four-year-old daughter, Solmarie Carrillo, outside the JFK Federal Building, Monday, March 27, 2017, in Boston, where a bail hearing for her husband, Alex Carrillo, was to take place. Carrillo, an undocumented Vermont farm worker, and two advocates for Vermont dairy farm workers have been detained by federal immigration officials. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) (The Associated Press)

BOSTON – About 100 people have protested the detention by federal immigration officials of three advocates for Vermont dairy farm workers.

A judge in Boston set bond on Monday for two of the advocates and denied bond for a third, following their recent arrest in Vermont by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Immigration officials allege they're in the U.S. illegally.

The Burlington Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/2ntFeMe ) Cesar Alex Carrillo's bond was set at $21,000 but the judge revoked it because of Carillo's arrest on suspicion of drunken driving, a charge that was dismissed.

The judge set bond of $2,500 each for Zully Palacios and Enrique Balcazar, who were arrested as they left the office of Migrant Justice in Burlington, Vermont.

The group rallied outside the federal courthouse in Boston before the hearings.