Authorities say 200 immigrants arrested in raids on 2 Southern California farms
Camarıllo, California (AP) – Federal immigration officials said in a statement on Friday, about 200 immigrants suspected of being in the country were arrested illegally Raids two California the day before the marijuana farm. During the operation, the protesters engaged in a tense stance with the authorities in one of the farms.
The Ministry of Homeland Security said in a statement that the authorities had applied a penalty order in Carpinteria and Camarillo in Camarillo on Thursday. In the statement, they arrested the migrants suspected of being in the country, and there were also at least 10 immigrant children.
The department said four US citizens had been “attacked by officers or for resisting”. Authorities offered an award of $ 50,000 for information that led to the arrest of a person suspected of firing guns to federal agents. At least one worker was hospitalized with serious injuries.
During the raid, the crowds of people gathered outside the Glass House farms in the Camarillo region to demand information about the crowds, relatives and protest immigration sanctions. Apart from the farm, a chaotic scene that grows tomatoes, cucumbers and cannabis emerged as uniforms faced by authorities and demonstrators covered with helmets. Acrid green and white smoke smoke then forced community members to withdraw.
On Friday, about two dozen people waited outside the Camarillo farm to collect their loved ones’s cars and talk to managers about what happened. The relatives of Jaime Alanis, who has been trying to collect tomatoes for 10 years, said that he was looking for his wife to say that immigrant agents came in Mexico during the raid and that he was hiding with others in the farm.
Alanis’s brother -in -law Juan Duran said, “The next thing we heard was that he was in the hospital,” he said.
It was not immediately clear how Alanis was injured. A doctor told the family that the others who brought Alanis to the hospital fell from the roof of one building.
Alanis, his nephew, who did not want to share his surname for the fear of retaliation, said that Alanis had a rupture in a broken neck, broken skull and artery.
68 -year -old Maria Servin said that her son Rafael Ortiz has been working on the farm for 18 years and helping to build a greenhouse when federal immigration agents arrived on Thursday.
Servin said he spoke to his son, who was undocumented after he heard about the raid, and offered to buy him. “There was a helicopter and there was even a helicopter. It was the last time I was talking to him,” he said.
He still went to the farm on Thursday, but he said that agents had suffered tear gas and rubber bullets and decided to stay safe.
He returned with his daughter on Friday and was told that his son was arrested. The family still doesn’t know where to be kept or how to communicate with it. Servin said, ım I regret it 1000 times for not helping him get his documents, ”he said.
Glass House said in a statement that the company did not violate “applicable recruitment practices ve and did not employ children.
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Taxin reported Orange County, California and Rodriguez’s San Francisco.
