Overview

• Multiple early morning ICE operations swept agricultural sites on June 11, with actions reaching from Oxnard in Ventura County to farms across the Central Valley.
• Videos showed agents chasing workers through fog-shrouded fields and at Boskovich Farms in Oxnard as workers fled to avoid detention.
• Oxnard Mayor Luis McArthur and Democratic lawmakers condemned the raids as unjustified tactics that sow fear without improving public safety.
• Advocacy groups warn that with at least half of California’s 255,700 farmworkers undocumented, the raids risk disrupting a $2 billion agriculture industry reliant on migrant labor.
• Protests have erupted across affected counties and the ACLU is pressing a federal lawsuit that previously forced stricter oversight of Border Patrol’s warrantless stops.