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A federal judge’s ruling ordering a pause on ICE raids in Southern California had its genesis outside a Pasadena donut shop, where on a June morning, masked and armed agents converged.
ICE agents raided cannabis nurseries in Camarillo, California, and Carpinteria, California, on Thursday. Both cannabis facilities are owned by Glass House Brands Inc., which bills itself as one of the largest cannabis flower brands in the world.
“While (Homeland Security Investigations) respects the public’s right to peacefully express disagreement with immigration enforcement, physical assaults on federal officers and interference with lawful operations will not be tolerated,” ICE said a day after the arrests.
A farmworker whose union said he suffered injuries in a California ICE raid has died, according to ABC Los Angeles station KABC.
A farmworker who fell from a greenhouse roof during a chaotic ICE raid this week at a California cannabis facility died Saturday of his injuries.
Jaime Alanis, 57, worked on a farm in Camarillo for 10 years before Thursday’s ICE raid, according to his family.
Hesperia, praised conditions at the immigration detention facility, Ruiz, D-Palm Desert, and Torres, D-Ontario, denounced what they said were unlawful actions by U.S.
Immigrant workers are central to recovery efforts in neighborhoods burned in the January wildfires, but recent raids have led some to stay home.