Worker dies following immigration raids on California cannabis farms

A farmworker has died from injuries helium sustained successful migration raids connected 2 California cannabis farms, arsenic United States authorities confirmed they arrested 200 workers aft a tense standoff with protesters.

The United Farm Workers advocacy radical confirmed the decease of Jaime Alanis, who was injured aft a 30-foot (nine-metre) autumn during 1 of the raids, successful a station connected X connected Friday.

“We tragically tin corroborate that a workplace idiosyncratic has died of injuries they sustained arsenic a effect of yesterday’s migration enforcement action,” it said.

Federal migration authorities confirmed connected Friday that they had arrested astir 200 immigrants suspected of being successful the US illegally successful raids connected Thursday astatine 2 cannabis farms successful Carpinteria and Camarillo, Southern California.

The Department of Homeland Security said successful a connection that they besides recovered astatine slightest 10 migrant children during the raids who were rescued from “potential exploitation, forced labour, and quality trafficking”.

The connection said 4 US citizens had been arrested for their relation successful convulsive confrontations betwixt agents and protesters. Authorities are besides offering a $50,000 reward for accusation starring to the apprehension of different idiosyncratic suspected of firing a weapon astatine the national agents.

“During the operation, much than 500 rioters attempted to disrupt operations. Four US citizens are being criminally processed for assaulting oregon resisting officers. The rioters damaged vehicles, and 1 convulsive agitator fired a weapon astatine instrumentality enforcement officers,” the connection said.

One of the raids saw migration agents clad successful military-style helmets and uniforms tempest Glass House Farms – a licensed cannabis grower which besides grows tomatoes and cucumbers – successful Camarillo connected Thursday.

Agents faced disconnected with the demonstrators extracurricular the farm, arsenic crowds of radical gathered to question accusation astir their relatives and to reason the raids.

Andrew Dowd, a spokesperson for the Ventura County Fire Department, said astatine slightest 12 radical were injured arsenic a effect of the raid and protest.

Jaime Alanis wrong Ventura County Medical Center aft helium was injured during an migration raid connected July 10, 2025, successful Camarillo, California [AP Photo]

During the raid, Alanis, who had reportedly worked at Glass House Farms picking tomatoes for 10 years, called his household successful Mexico to accidental helium was hiding from authorities.

“The adjacent happening we heard was that helium was successful the infirmary with breached hands, ribs and a breached neck,” said Juan Duran, Alanis’s brother-in-law, according to The Associated Press quality agency.

In a statement, Glass House said migration agents held valid warrants, and it is helping supply detained workers with ineligible representation.

“Glass House has ne'er knowingly violated applicable hiring practices and does not and has ne'er employed minors,” the connection said.

United Farm Workers said successful a connection that immoderate US citizens who worked astatine the steadfast are not yet accounted for.

The raid is the latest to instrumentality spot arsenic portion of the Trump administration’s controversial all-out campaign cracking down connected migration successful the US.

Since returning to the White House, Trump has unleashed groups of migration agents to circular up undocumented migrants and sent accused pack members to a maximum-security situation successful El Salvador without owed process.

But successful the aftermath of Thursday’s raids, Federal Judge Maame E Frimpong ordered a impermanent halt to the Trump administration’s indiscriminate migration stops and arrests successful 7 California counties, including Los Angeles.

The Friday ruling comes successful effect to a suit filed by migrant advocacy groups successful the US District Court past week, accusing the Trump medication of systematically targeting brown-skinned radical during migration raids successful Southern California.

The filing asked the justice to artifact the medication from utilizing what they called unconstitutional tactics.

In her ruling, which remains successful spot for 10 days, Judge Frimpong agreed that “roving patrols” of migration agents without tenable suspicion violated the Fourth Amendment, protecting individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures, and the Fifth Amendment, ensuring owed process of law.

Frimpong directed agents to halt racially profiling radical and ordered the national authorities to guarantee detainees person entree to ineligible counsel.

Al Jazeera analogous successful Washington, DC, Shihab Rattansi, said the lawsuit gets to the “heart of whether we tin person these marauding benignant of gangs of ICE agents without immoderate identification” sweeping radical up.

“[The plaintiffs reason determination is] nary probable origin to fishy they’re breaking immoderate benignant of migration laws. And we cognize a batch of radical who are citizens are being swept up too,” Rattansi said.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies