1 report dead in California as U.S. judge orders to stop immigration crackdown tactics
A California farm worker attacked a marijuana nursery and arrested hundreds of workers at a U.S. immigration agent Friday, while a worker advocacy group said a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily halt some of its most radical tactics to address undocumented immigration.
During the operation, dozens of immigration rights activists face to face with federal agents in rural Southern California on Thursday, the latest escalation for President Donald Trump, who ran for mass deportation, illegally deporting immigrants in the United States.
A California judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from seeking deportation targets and denied immigrants the right to obtain lawyers during detention.
According to the administration’s estimates, the Trump administration has made conflicting statements about whether immigration agents will make workforces on farm labor, about half of whom work in the United States without authorization.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said about 200 people were illegally arrested in the country, and the raider targeted two sites on cannabis-operated glass house farms in Camarillo and Carpenteria.
The agency also found 10 immigrant minors on the farm, the department said in an emailed statement. The facility is under investigation for violating child labour, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott posted on social media platforms.
The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
According to photos and videos on the scene, the scene at the farm was chaotic on Thursday, with federal agents wearing tear gas and a mask of smoke jars.
United Farm Workers’ State Vice President Elizabeth Strater said several farm workers were injured during the raid and were injured Friday after falling 9 meters from the building.
The deceased worker was identified as Jaime Alanis on the verified GoFundMe page, which said the worker was trying to raise funds to help his family and his funeral in Mexico.
“He is a supplier to his family. They have occupied one of our family members. We need justice,” Alanis’s family wrote on the GoFundMe page.
Stratt said that during the raid, U.S. citizens were detained, and some remained undetained. The DHS said its agents were not responsible for the man’s death, saying: “Although not being chased by law enforcement, the man climbed onto the roof of a greenhouse and fell 30 feet.” The DHS said agents immediately called for a medical evacuation.
“Evidence Mountain” stopped its aggressive tactics
Southern California’s melee is a dozen lawsuits facing its controversial tactics across the country to track undocumented immigrants for deportation.
U.S. District Court Judge Maame Frimpong approved two temporary restraining orders that prevented the government from detaining immigrants suspected of illegally in the country in a racial profile and denying the detained persons to speak with their attorneys.
The ruling was made against a lawsuit by Immigration Advocate, he said the government has dispelled suspicious undocumented immigrants by conducting “patrols” that violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and, based on their Latinoism, then denied their contact with lawyers.
“Faced with a lot of evidence presented in this case, the federal government believes that the court believes that none of this actually happened,” Frimpong wrote in her ruling.
Warnings about food supply
Director’s attorney Angelica Preciado said that rural California legal aid is providing legal services and other support to farm workers and is working to collect checks for detained glass house workers.
Preyado said some of the glass house workers detained during the raid could only call their families after signing a voluntary eviction order and were told they could be sentenced to jail for working at a cannabis facility.
“Accusing ICE or CBP agents of detainees saying legal aid is undoubtedly wrong,” Department of Homeland Security spokesman Tricia McLaughlin rejected the allegations and said in an emailed statement.
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UFW President Teresa Romero said in a statement that some detained civilian workers were released only after deleting photos and videos of their cell phones.
“These violent and cruel federal actions have terrorized the U.S. community, undermining the U.S. food supply chain, threatening lives and independent families,” Romero said.
Farm groups warn that mass expulsion of farm workers will weaken the country’s food supply chain. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said in a recent comment that deported farm workers will have a “common amnesty”. But Trump said migrant workers should be allowed to stay on the farm.
