Federal immigration officials said Protesters engaged A stressful deadlock with the authorities during an operation in a fields. A farm worker also died after maintaining injuries during one of the raids, a family member of the victim confirmed CBS News on Saturday.
A senior official of the Homeland Security Department said that a total of 319 arrests were made by federal agents on Thursday in two cannabis fields.
In a previous statement on Friday, DHS said the authorities on Thursday carried out criminal search warrants in Carpinteria and Camerilo, California. The statement said that he suspected immigrants to live illegally in the country, and there were at least 10 immigrant children on the site.
Immigration and customs and customs and border security were part of both operations, stated in Friday’s statement.
Two DHS officials told CBS News on Friday that federal agents had illegal criminal warrants in the US while performing the operation at the cannabis farm.
The department said four American citizens were arrested for “attacking or opposing officials”.
“We will prosecute the law to the extent of the law, which attacks any person or attacks the federal law enforcement,” Assistant Secretary Trisia McLaglin said in a DHS statement.
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Officers were giving a reward of $ 50,000 for the leading information for the arrest of a person on suspicion of federal agents. Some protesters were also captured by video throwing rocks.
During the raid, a crowd of people gathered outside the Glass House fields in Camerilo to get information about their relatives and oppose immigration enforcement. Authorities faced the military-style helmets and exhibitions in uniforms. Acrid Green and White Billing Smoke then forced the members of the community to back down.
In a post To come true on Friday night, which appeared in the context of violence during the Camarilo protest, President Trump said he said “Homeland Security, Christie NoM, and Border Caesar, and Border Caesar, Directing Secretary of Tom Homan, all snow, homeland security, or any other law enforcement officer, who are closing the abuses, or in any other form, or any other form.”
A licensed California canbis producer Glass House said in a statement that immigration agents had valid warrants. The company said the workers were detained, and this is helping them to provide legal representation. The farm tomatoes and cucumbers also grow.
“Glass house has never violated the recruitment practices implemented and it has never been employed to minors,” the statement said.
Developing and selling cannabis in California with proper licensing is legal.
The department of the state’s Canbis Control said that in May 2025, no minor was seen in the campus during a site trip in the farm.
Friday night, a federal judge Ordered Trump administration to temporarily prevent immigration raids in Southern California in response to the trumpet of ACLU and immigrant rights groups.
A worker dies, many people hurt during the camerailo farm raid, protests
The United Form Workers Union reported the death of a Camarilo farm worker injured during the raid on Friday late Friday, but the Ventura County Medical Center later issued a statement -authorized statement saying that he was still on life support. On Saturday, the niece of Farm Worker confirmed CBS News that he had died.
“My uncle has passed away with heavy hearts,” Yasenia Duran told CBS News in a statement on Saturday.
In fact, the circumstances about how he was injured was unclear, although in A Social media post On Friday evening, DHS said that in question the worker fell from a greenhouse from the roof. The DHS stated that the activist “was not in custody of customs and border security or immigration and customs enforcement.
“Although he was not being chased by law enforcement, the person climbed to the roof of a green house and fell 30 feet,” said DHS. “CBP immediately called a medioc to the scene to take care of him as soon as possible.”
Andrew Doud, a spokesman for the Ventura County Fire Department, said on Friday that at least 12 people were injured during the raids and protests. Eight was taken to St. John’s Regional Medical Center and Ventura County Medical Center, and four were treated and released at the scene. Dowd said that on Friday, he was not aware of the injuries of the hospitalized people.
The hospital did not immediately respond to the remarks requests on Friday.
Conflict with protesting federal immigration agents
Relatives and advocates turned to the farm at a distance of about 50 miles in the north -west of the city of Los Angeles, trying to find out what was going on, and began to protest outside.
Federal officials formed a line blocking the road leading through farm fields for the company’s greenhouse. The protesters were seen shouting on agents wearing camouflage gear, helmets and gas masks. Billing Smoke inspired the protesters to retreat. It was not clear why the authorities threw the kanastars or if they released chemicals like tear gas.
The firefighters of Ventura County, while responding to 911 calls, asked people to have trouble breathing, that three people were taken to nearby hospitals.
In the field, agents arrested the workers and removed them from the bus. Others, including American citizens, were detained on the site for hours, while agents investigated.
Many workers hid throughout the field during the raid, emerging on Friday morning. He included Jesus, whose niece, Jennifer Martinez spoke to CBS News.
“They are working here, alive,” Martinez told CBS News. “They are just tearing families here and terrorizing them.”
Ruby Ginage told CBS News that many of her relatives worked in the field.
“An aunt was taken,” Ginez said. “A mother was taken. It could be a citizen, not an American citizen, it doesn’t matter.”
Gennez revealed that he himself was recently pulled from snow while taking his child to school and was to prove that he was an American citizen.
The incident occurred when the federal immigration agents arrested car Washes, farm and home depot parking site in southern California, increasing the widespread fear among the immigrant communities.