An agricultural worker seriously injured during a descent of the immigration police in legal farms of cannabis, this week near Los Angeles, died, his family announced on Saturday July 12.
During Thursday’s raids, carried out as part of the illegal immigration repression campaign launched by the Donald Trump administration, some 200 people had been arrested and clashes opposed agents and demonstrators.
The worker’s family had launched a page on the Gofundme fund collection platform, to support his relatives in Mexico. On Saturday, this page published an update to announce that the worker, Jaime Alanis, was « mort ».
During the police operation which took place in the county of Ventura, at a little more than an hour drive from Los Angeles, the man had been chased by the immigration agents, the family said.
“My uncle Jaime was just an innocent and hardworking farmer”wrote a family member on the fundraising page. “He was chased by immigration police officers, and we were told that he had fallen from [9 mètres] »he specifies by describing his injuries as “Catastrophic”.
The worker “Has never been detained” By the police, had previously assured the Agency France-Presse (AFP) Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Ministry of American Interior Security. “Although he was not prosecuted by the police, this man climbed on the roof of a greenhouse and dropped 9 meters”she added, adding that the police officers “Immediately called an ambulance”.
Tensions and violence during the police raid
According to the ministry, 200 undocumented people were arrested during the descents in the localities of Carpinteria and Camallo on Thursday, and ten children were saved “Potential exploitation, forced labor and human trafficking”.
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Glass House Brands, owner of the farms, said in a statement that he “NEVER SIGNING APPLIES THE APPLICABLE PRICE PRACTICES AND DO NOT UNE MINERS”.
The ministry said that more than 500 “Rioters” had tried to disrupt the operation and that four American citizens were accused of having attacked or resisted the agents.
The images of the local media have shown masked immigration agents, in ancalenting, disperse dozens of protesters with tear gas, and some demonstrators throw projectiles on police cars.
Friday evening, Donald Trump ordered, on his social social platform, to any federal agent “Who would be the victim of stone, brick or any other form of assault to stop their car and stop these scrapers [les manifestants et émeutiers présumés]using all the means necessary to achieve this ”.
On the spot, Aaron Fuentes, a supervisor who has worked for Glass House for two years, said he saw dozens of vans of the immigration police land on Thursday. “They identified the people to check whether they had papers or not, then they raised them one by one in the vanshe explained. I have not seen the whole operation, but there was violence, ill -treatment. »»
This intervention is likely to rekindle tensions, a month after the demonstrations in Los Angeles against the migration policy of Donald Trump, who sometimes degenerated into violence.