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The ICE raid this month at Glass House Brands in Camarillo has provoked anxiety across California's legal cannabis industry.
Among those detained in California, the majority are not the “worst of the worst” the Trump administration said it was targeting, federal data shows.
Facing constant fears of deportation, undocumented farmworkers return to the fields in Ventura County, California, speaking to CNN’s Julia Vargas Jones about what’s driving them back to work during the busy harvest season.
The notable increase in ICE arrests throughout the country now has the numbers to prove it, according recent reports.
DHS claims Rep. Carbajal doxxed a staff member during a raid on a California marijuana farm that resulted in the arrest of 361 illegal immigrants.
Jaime Alanis, 57, worked on a farm in Camarillo for 10 years before Thursday’s ICE raid, according to his family.
The majority of new detainees at one Kern County facility in McFarland are immigrants with no criminal convictions, according to the latest data by ICE, mirroring a nationwide trend. Meanwhile, another detention facility in Bakersfield is at capacity, according to immigrant advocates.
Candido’s story reveals how ICE surveillance and raids intersect—and how data journalism is exposing these secretive tactics.
The towing company in the popular viral clip is Oxnard towing service Airport Towing. When contacted by Newsweek by phone, the company confirmed the white SUV was an ICE vehicle that had been parked illegally on Thursday, July 10. However, viral reports that the tow truck driver was "following" ICE are inaccurate.
Fear from ongoing ICE operations has led immigrant workers and families in Southern California to face worsening extreme heat conditions at their workplaces and homes.