A dead worker, hundreds of people arrested after the cannabis farm raid

An agricultural worker from California died on Friday due to the wounds suffered a day before when the US immigration agents broke into a cannabis operation and arrested hundreds of workers, according to a defense group of agricultural workers.

Separately, a federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to temporarily stop some of his most aggressive tactics in gathering documents without documents.

Dozens of activists for migrants’ rights faced on Thursday with federal agents in Rural Southern California.

It was the latest escalation of the campaign of President Donald Trump for the mass deportations of immigrants in the United States illegally.

His administration has issued conflicting statements that immigration agents target the workforce of agricultural work, about half of which is not authorized to work in the United States, according to government estimates.

The National Security Department stated that about 200 people in the country were illegally arrested in the Raid, which targeted two locations of the cannabis operations Operation Glass House.

The agents also found 10 minors migrant on the farm, said the department in a statement via e -mail.

The structure is under investigation for violations of child labor, commissioner for the protection of borders and borders Rodney Scott published on X.

The company did not immediately respond to a commentary request.

Thursday’s farm scene was chaotic, with federal agents in helmets and face masks that use tear gas and smoke cylinders on angry demonstrators, according to the photos and videos of the scene.

Several agricultural workers were injured and one died on Friday from injuries suffered after a fall of 30 feet (9 meters) from a building during the Raid, said Elizabeth Strater, national vice president of the United Farm Workers.

The dead worker was identified as Jaime Alanis on a verified Gofundme page created by his family, who said to raise funds to help his family and for his burial in Mexico.

“He was the supplier of his family. They took one of our family members. We need justice,” wrote Alanis’ family on the Gofundme page.

US citizens were detained during the raid and some are not yet counted, said Strater.

Dhs said that his agents were not responsible for the death of man, saying that “although it was not pursued by the police, this individual went up to the roof of a green house and fell 30 feet”. The agents immediately asked for a medical evacuation, said DHS.

Warnings on the supply of food

Rural legal assistance from California, which provides legal services and other support to agricultural workers, is working to collect checks for the workers in prisoners of the glass house, said the direction of the lawyer Angelica Preiado.

Some workers in the glass house held during the Raid were able to call family members only after signing voluntary deportation orders and it was told that they could be imprisoned for life because they worked in a cannabis structure, said Preiado.

The spokesman for the DHS Trice McLaughlin has rejected these accusations, affirming in an and -mil declaration that “the accusations that the Ice or CBP agents have denied the prisoners to call legal assistance are unequivocally false”.

Some citizens who have been detained reported having been released only by the case after deleting photos and videos of the raid from their phones, said the president of the UFW Teresa Romero in a note.

“These violent and cruel federal actions terrify American communities, interrupt the American food supply chain, threaten live lives and families,” said Romero.

The agricultural groups warned that the mass deportation of agricultural workers would paralyze the country’s food supply chain.

In his most recent comments, the secretary of agriculture Brooke Rollins said that there would be no “amnesty” for agricultural workers from deportation. Trump, however, said that migrant workers should be authorized to remain on the farms.

The judge of the United States District Court Maame Frimong has granted two temporary restriction orders that block the administration from detention immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally based on racial profiling and of denying people prisoners the right to speak with a lawyer.

The sentence, made in response to a cause of immigration defense groups, states that the administration is violating the fourth and fifth amendment to the Constitution conducting “itinerant patrols” to sweep suspicions of immigrants without documents based on their being Latinos and therefore denying them access to lawyers.

“What the Federal Government would have made this Court believe -to face a mountain of evidence presented in this case -is that nothing of this is really happening,” wrote Frimpong in his sentence. [Reuters]

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