(Camallo) An agricultural worker was in critical condition on Friday evening, according to his family, after being injured the day before during a descent of the immigration police near Los Angeles, in legal farms of cannabis where some 200 people were arrested and where clashes took place between agents and demonstrators.
The United Farm Workers agricultural union had initially announced the death of this worker, but the human family said, in a message on the GoFundme site, that he was in critical condition, with low chances of survival.
“The doctors told us that he wouldn’t get out. His injuries are catastrophic. His heart is still beating, ”said one of his relatives in this message.
The police 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 seriously injured worker “was never detained” by the police, assured AFP Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Internal Security.
“Although he was not prosecuted by the police, this man climbed on the roof of a greenhouse and fell nine 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 department said in a separate statement.
“More than 500 rioters tried to disrupt the operations,” added the department, explaining that the agents operated with “arrest warrants”.
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The meeting between the police and the demonstrators led to violent exchanges.
The images of the local media show masked agents, in anti -grown outfit, disperse dozens of protesters with tear gas, and some demonstrators throw projectiles on the police cars.
“Sales”
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. »»
During the operation, the police found “ten migrant children”, according to the department, who considers having “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. »»
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A man rins his eyes after being exposed to tear gas.
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.
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.
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Federal agents try to disperse the demonstrators with tear gas.
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.
Friday evening, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to take measures to avoid facies controls in Los Angeles and in six other California counties, including that of Ventura.
A judge orders the Trump administration to stop racial profiling
In Los Angeles
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 – as a bus stop, a car washing, a farm or a DIY store. The Trump administration has not yet announced its intentions, but an appeal of this decision seems highly likely.
