California union leader David Huerta has been charged in federal court with conspiracy to impede an officer after he was arrested on Friday while protesting federal immigration enforcement efforts.

Huerta, the president of the California branch of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), is detained and slated to appear for a bond hearing Monday afternoon.

A Homeland Security agent alleged in a court affidavit dated Sunday that officers were trying to execute a search warrant at a Los Angeles establishment suspected of hiring people who had entered the U.S. without authorization when Huerta took several steps to “disrupt the operation.”

Huerta sat and paced in front of a gate, the federal agent wrote in the affidavit, and refused to move aside.

At one point, Huerta “refused to move away from the path” when a law enforcement van........

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