(Los Angeles) 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 nine meters,” she added, adding that the police “immediately called an ambulance”.
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The meeting between the police and the demonstrators led to violent exchanges.
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 Ministry of Internal Security said in a statement.
“More than 500 rioters have tried to disrupt the operations,” added the ministry, explaining that the agents were acting with “arrest mandates”.
The images of the local media show masked agents in rose -resistant 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 ministry.
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. »»
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A man rinse his eyes after being exposed to tear gas.
“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 hiring practices and does not use minor employees”.
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, 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.
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Federal agents try to disperse the demonstrators with tear gas.
“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.
A judge orders the Trump administration to stop racial profiling
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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to take action to avoid racial profiling in Los Angeles. It thus agrees to several migrants and two American citizens, and to the associations which helped them to file a complaint in early July. They believed that they had been victims of racial profiling and also denounced obstructions to have access to a lawyer in detention. His decision, which applies to Los Angeles and in six other California counties, prohibited from the immigration police to arrests without valid reason on the basis of four factors: ethnic origin, speaking Spanish or English with a foreign accent, the profession of an individual or the fact that he is in a particular place a bus stop, a self-wash, a farm or a DIY store. The Trump administration has not yet announced its intentions, but an appeal of this decision seems highly likely.
