Federal agents on Wednesday stopped a van in Woodburn and detained 14 farmworkers on board, an immigrant rights organization said. It’s the latest in a string of large immigration arrests in Woodburn, where more than half of the population is Latino.

In late October, at least 35 people were arrested in one day, immigrants rights groups reported, and in August, a group of farm workers from Guatemala were also detained by immigration authorities when they were on their way to pick berries.

Natalie Lerner, a board member with the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition, which verifies and tracks immigration arrests in Oregon, said the latest arrests took place Wednesday morning.

Lerner believes 15 workers were in the van stopped by immigration agents, but one worker was released. She said

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