Officers pointed guns, threw smoke canisters, and shot rubber bullets at protestors.
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Officers pointed guns, threw smoke canisters, and shot rubber bullets at protestors.
July 10, 2025
July 14, 2025 Update: DHS updated the number of immigrants arrested in the raids to 361. On X, the agency provided comment on the circumstances surrounding the one worker’s death.
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July 11, 2025 Update 2: The United Farm Workers on Friday announced that one of the workers injured during Thursday’s ICE raid in Camarillo, Calif., died of his injuries.
July 11, 2025 Update 1: The Department of Homeland Security announced today that federal agents arrested 200 immigrants in the farm raids in Carpinteria and Camarillo and that during the operations they also “rescued” 10 migrant children “from potential exploitation, forced labor, and human trafficking.” Officials also said one protester in Camarillo fired a gun at officers; they are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the individual’s arrest. An ABC video appears to show a protester firing a gun; the accompanying summary says no injuries were reported. Our reporter on the scene at the time did not witness gunfire.
July 10, 2025 – Large groups of immigration agents with military vehicles, helicopters, and weapons raided two farms in Southern California today, one in Carpinteria and another in Camarillo, where they rounded up workers and threw tear gas at protestors.
Both were locations of Glasshouse Farms, a cannabis operation that grows marijuana in large greenhouses.
In Carpinteria, farm staff told a local news station that 10 workers had been detained. There, federal agents threw flash-bang grenades and smoke bombs at a group of protestors, including U.S. Representative Salud Carbajal (D-California) and a local councilwoman.
In Camarillo, Ventura officials estimated 12 to 15 workers were detained. There, live helicopter footage from ABC News showed about a dozen military vehicles, fire trucks, and ambulances near the farms. At the site, individuals could be seen lined up against two walls outside. Federal agents blocked a road, where protesters gathered with signs and bullhorns and filmed with their cellphone cameras. At around both 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., agents fired non-lethal rounds and tear gas at the crowd before advancing forward, pointing weapons at the protestors. At one point, some protestors tried to block military vehicles from advancing; several protestors threw water bottles at the phalanx of federal agents.
(Photo credit: Brian Calvert)
Civil Eats was on the ground in Camarillo, where protestors said they had been assembled since around 10 a.m. They said the agents had advanced at least four times and also shot rubber bullets at them. The protestors said they could see agents lining people up outside the farm facility and loading them into vans. One woman said her cousin, who was in the process of applying for legal status, was hiding inside.
“We feed the country, we feed the people. Out here, this is all farmland. This a farm community,” said Javier Martinez, a Ventura County employee who took part in the protests. “There are a lot of farmworkers, field workers; they’re here to work.”
Although the administration has wavered several times as to whether farmworkers would be included in mass deportation plans, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said this week that there would be “no amnesty.” Civil Eats has been tracking raids on farms and other food establishments and has recorded at least 23 to date. (Link to this post.)
This story has been updated so that all times mentioned reflect Pacific Time.
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These people are being kidnapped in broad daylight. They have done nothing wrong. Using the word 'detained' denies the unconstitutional illegality of these raids and the terror it inflicts on everyone in the country. Everyone!