An agricultural worker died on Friday after being injured the previous day during a descent from the immigration police near Los Angeles, in legal farms of cannabis where clashes between agents and protesters occurred.
“The family informed me that I was in intensive care, and this morning, confirmed that there was dead,” a Pinal Romése novel, United Farmer Workers vice president, a great American agricultural union.
A 9 -meter drop
The operation took place on Thursday in Carpenteria and Camallo, two rural municipalities in Ventura County, located just over an hour by Los Angeles car. The deceased worker “has never been arrested” by the Police, told the AFP Tricia McLaughlin, spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Security.
“Although it was not prosecuted by the police, this individual went up to the roof of a greenhouse and fell 9 meters,” he added, added that the police “immediately called an ambulance.”
The federal agents “arrested around 200 foreigners in an irregular situation in the two sites”, and “suffered shots” by a shooter “still in the race”, which the FBI is now actively looking for, the ministry said in a separate statement.
“More than 500 uprooters have tried to interrupt operations,” added the ministry, explaining that the agents operated with “arrest orders.” The images of the local media show masked agents, with riot clothes, disperse dozens of protesters with tear gas, and some protesters throw projectiles in the police cars.
“Stop these scratches”
On Friday night, Donald Trump ordered, on his social social platform, to any federal agent “who would be a victim of stones, bricks or any other form of assault, to stop his car and stop these scrapers, using all the necessary means to achieve them.”
“I never want to see a car that transports a police officer to be attacked!” He insisted, denouncing “a total contempt for law and order.” During the operation, the police found “10 migrant children,” according to the Ministry, which considers them “saved from a potential and forced exploitation.”
The Glass House company, owner of the two refined farms, said in a statement that “has never violated the applicable contracting practices and does not use, or never uses, minors.”
In the event, Aaron Fuentes, a supervisor who has worked for Glass House for two years, said he saw dozens of immigration police vans on Thursday.
“They identified the people to verify whether they had documents or not, then raised them one by one in the trucks,” he said. “I have not seen the entire operation, but there was violence, poor treatment.”
Packaged relatives
On Friday, dozens of relatives of the workers arrested aligned in front of the Camillo farm, anguished, facing security agents that allowed them to return to the operation to recover their belongings and the payment of their salary.
“We have been asking questions from 6 in the morning and they have not given us information for the 6 am,” said Saul Muñoz, a 43 -year -old Colombian whose son was arrested yesterday. The latter had been working on the farm for less than a month.
“I just need to know how it is going, that they return to me. If it is our turn, we will leave,” Mr. Muñoz sighed. “The truth is that the American dream is not really an American dream.”
It is likely that this decrease revives tensions, a month after the manifestations in Los Angeles against Donald Trump’s migration policy, who sometimes degenerated violence.
Thousands of soldiers of the National Guard still deploy in the region, antimigrant operations are daily and the Trump administration disputes in justice the status of “sanctuary city” of the democratic megalopolis, which limits the cooperation of the Local Police with the immigration police.
On Monday, Mayor Karen Bass faced a large number of horsepower and strongly armed agents during an operation organized in a precious park in Latinos, where she denounced a “scandalous” operation.
Source: BFM TV
