ICE, cannabis and Farmworker
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Karen Bass, ICE and Los Angeles Mayor
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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.
A farmworker who fell from a greenhouse roof during a chaotic ICE raid this week at a California cannabis facility died Saturday of his injuries.
The lead plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit were sitting at a bus stop in Pasadena when federal agents converged, and apprehended them. On Friday, their allegations gained traction with a federal
The spike in ICE enforcement across the country has been accompanied by a massive surge in arrests occurring outside the usual criminal justice pipeline, including a fourfold increase of street arrests in these states, and a fivefold increase in arrests of immigrants who have no criminal charges or convictions.
Trump has focused workplace raids on small businesses as part of his administration’s push to ramp up arrests of unauthorized migrants.
The notable increase in ICE arrests throughout the country now has the numbers to prove it, according recent reports.