(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 was dead,” 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 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,” the department of domestic security said in a press release.
“More than 500 rioters tried to disrupt the operations,” added the department, explaining that the agents were acting with “arrest mandates”.
The images of the local media show masked agents in anti-riot clothes disperse dozens of protesters with tear gas, and some demonstrators throw projectiles on the police cars.
“Sales”
On a video captured by the ABC7 channel, a man seems to brandish a pistol towards the police.
The FBI “now offers a reward of $ 50,000 for any information allowing the arrest of this violent rioter”, according to the department.
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”, which the authorities believe they have “saved 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”.
Distraught relatives
Friday, Camillo’s farm was calm again, an AFP journalist noted. Dozens of relatives of the workers arrested, moving up, in front of 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.
Her child has 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 against Donald Trump’s migration policy in Los Angeles, who have 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 confronted a host of federal and heavily armed agents during an operation organized in a prized park in the Latino, denouncing a “scandalous” operation.
