(Camallo) An agricultural worker died on Friday after being injured the day before during a descent of the immigration police near Los Angeles, in legal farms of cannabis where clashes between agents and demonstrators took place.
“The family informed me that he was in intensive care, and this morning, she confirmed that he had died,” said Pinal Romanesque AFP, vice-president of United Farm Workers, a large American agricultural union.
The operation took place Thursday in Carpinteria and Camallo, two rural municipalities in the county of Ventura, located just over an hour’s drive from Los Angeles.
The deceased worker “was never detained” by the police, assured AFP Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Security.
“Although he was not prosecuted by the police, this individual climbed on the roof of a greenhouse and fell 9 meters,” she added, adding that the police “immediately called an ambulance”.
The federal agents “arrested around 200 foreigners in an irregular situation on the two sites”, and “suffered shots” on the part of a shooter “still on the run”, which the FBI is now actively looking for, the ministry said in a separate statement.
“More than 500 rioters have tried to disrupt the operations,” added the ministry, explaining that the agents operated with “arrest warrants”.
The images of the local media show masked agents, in riot clothes, disperse dozens of protesters with tear gas, and some demonstrators throw projectiles on police cars.
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Friday evening, Donald Trump ordered, on his social social platform, to any federal agent “who would be the victim of stones, bricks or any other form of assault, to stop their car and to stop these scrapers, using all the means necessary to achieve them. »»
“I never want to see a car transporting a law enforcement agent to be attacked!” “, He insisted, denouncing” a total contempt for law and order “.
During the operation, the police found “10 migrant children”, according to the ministry, who believes that they “saved them from potential, forced work”.
The company Glass House, owner of the two bounds referred to, assured in a statement that it “has never knowingly violated the applicable hiring practices and does not use, or never used, minors”.
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 vans,” he said. “I have not seen the whole operation, but there was violence, ill -treatment. »»
Distraught relatives
Friday, dozens of relatives of the workers arrested lining up in front of the Camillo farm, distraught, facing security agents who let them return to the operation to recover their belongings and the pay of their pay.
“We have been asking questions since 6 am and they have given us no information for 6 am,” said Saul Munoz, a 43 -year -old Colombian whose son was arrested yesterday.
The latter had been working on the farm for less than a month.
“I just need to know how it is, that they are brought back to me. If it is our turn, we will leave, ”sighed Mr. Munoz. “The truth is that the American dream is no longer really an American dream. »»
This descent 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.
Thousands of soldiers from the National Guard are still deployed in the region, anti-migrant operations are daily and the Trump administration disputes in justice the status of “sanctuary city” of the Democratic megalopolis, which limits the cooperation of local police with the immigration police.
Monday, mayor Karen Bass faced a host of horse agents and heavily armed during an operation organized in a prized park in Latinos, where she denounced a “scandalous” operation.
