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An ICE raid on a farm in Ventura County, California had an especially brutal outcome. Jaime Alanís Garcia, a Mexican farmworker who spent nearly a decade picking tomatoes in California, is now on life support after falling 30 feet while fleeing an immigration raid.
Border czar Tom Homan slammed Democratic leaders for 'emboldening' violence against ICE officers after a raid on a California marijuana farm.
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Federal agents conducting raids on two California cannabis farms clashed with protesters on Thursday, appearing to fire chemical munitions at them.
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The notable increase in ICE arrests throughout the country now has the numbers to prove it, according recent reports.
California has six privately operated immigration detention centers. Two of these — Golden State Annex in McFarland and Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield — are also located in Kern County and run by The Geo Group, another private prison operator.
“The idea that people who are dressed as if they’re robbing a liquor store are running around grabbing Californians and throwing them into unmarked vehicles and taking them God knows where — it’s like a dystopian nightmare,” Wiener told Playbook. “We need to be aggressive and decisive in trying to put a stop to it.”
Federal immigration agents seeking to detain a Honduran landscaper chased him into a Southern California surgical center and quickly found themselves in a tense standoff as clinic staff demanded to see identification and a warrant.