As word and video images of the raids spread on social media, dozens of migrant-rights activists converged on the area in vehicles leading to face-offs with federal agents in the middle of rural roadways, according to the Santa Barbara Independent, Los Angeles Times and other news media.
Glass House Farms, which bills itself as one of the “fastest-growing vertically integrated cannabis companies in the U.S.,“ said on X that its greenhouse sites “were visited today by ICE officials,“ adding, “The company fully complied with agent search warrants and will provide further updates if necessary.”
Tear gas
Local TV footage from the scene of one standoff showed protesters yelling and gesturing angrily at armed, uniformed federal agents wearing helmets and face masks blocking traffic with yellow crime-scene tape strung across the road.
In Carpinteria, U.S. Representative Salud Carbajal, a California Democrat, said he was denied access to the scene of the raid while seeking to exercise his oversight authority as a member of Congress, and that company officials later told him 10 workers were taken into custody at that location.
One of two city council members who were also present fell and injured her arm in a fracas between protesters and law enforcement, the Independent reported.
Shifting position
Trump on June 14 ordered ICE to halt enforcement activities on farms, but the agency reversed that position days later. On July 3, Trump said he was willing to let migrant workers stay in the country if farmers can “vouch” for them. Days later Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said there would be “no amnesty” for farmworkers from deportation.
Raids on some California farms in June left crops unharvested and farmworkers and operators fearful of further enforcement activity - REUTERS
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