Overview

• ICE agents detained roughly 200 undocumented workers and took ten children into protective custody during the Ventura County cannabis farm operation
• Protesters clashed with officers, prompting tear gas and smoke bomb deployments and the activation of the National Guard in Oxnard and Camarillo
• A farm worker who fell from about ten meters during the raid was reported critically injured and later declared dead by union sources, though DHS accounts offered differing details
• U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong’s injunction requires DHS to establish clear guidelines for ‘reasonable suspicion’ before making immigration arrests
• Governor Gavin Newsom and advocacy groups are pressing for additional legal and political measures to rein in aggressive enforcement tactics