ICE faces off with protesters at Southern California cannabis grow farm
By: Alicia Victoria Lozano (NBC News)
Now ICE is threatening the California doobie supply. Is nothing sacred?
What we have learned is there really is an anti-ICE hotline to call in an instant protest. Too bad these protesters cannot fight crime the same way they fight the police. Guess we know where their priorities lie.
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Immigration officials descended on a large Southern California cannabis grow house Thursday afternoon, prompting a multi-hour confrontation with protesters who blocked roads and faced off with federal agents.
The scene unfolded outside the Glass House Farms cultivation center, a 5.5 million-square-foot indoor facility south of Camarillo.
Glass House Brands Inc., the parent company of the farm, said in a brief statement on X that it "fully complied with agent search warrants."
It was not immediately clear how many people were arrested at the facility.
Outside, dozens of protesters faced off against a convoy of federal officers who used gas canisters and flash-bang grenades to keep the crowd away from the former tomato farm.
Protesters waved Mexican flags, and some yelled anti-ICE slogans through loudspeakers. Less-lethal munitions peppered demonstrators, many of whom appeared not to be prepared for a physical confrontation with agents.
Farm equipment could be seen being loaded onto tow trucks and taken away.
"It's just a horrible, a horrible situation. People are scared inside," said Raquel Sanchez, a volunteer with an anti-deportation group that responds to immigration raids.
Workers inside the facility tipped off local immigration advocates when federal officers arrived, Sanchez said. Volunteers rushed to document the unfolding scene and share it on social media. As the minutes ticked by, more and more people joined the protest.
"These are not the criminals that Trump said would be targeted," Sanchez said. "They don't have another choice but to come to work. They are just gambling being deported on a daily basis."
Alicia Victoria Lozano is a California-based reporter for NBC News focusing on climate change, wildfires and the changing politics of drug laws.
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Marijuana is still classified as a Schedule I drug under the Federal Controlled Substances Act. From the viewpoint of Federal law enforcement, these are illegal immigrants engaged in illegal activity. A Federal drug crime really is justification for immediate deportation.
Spray the entire crop with paraquat, then chain the doors closed.
BREAKING: Pink haired protesters are ramming Mexican flags into the tires of U.S. military vehicles & smashing the flagpoles against the windows — amid an immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, CA.
at least they show what country they are loyal to.
and a guy firing a gun at ICE…
we already know some will blame ICE for criminals shooting at them.
(1) Bill Madden on X: "This gentleman is not wrong. 😳👇 https://t.co/K9EzXvvFcY" / X
Whoa there John Calhoun...Mayors can't arrest people for enforcing federal law.
If only they put that level of effort into catching gang members, or Epstein’s clients, or helping Texas flood victims.
They could be doing all manner of useful things. They could put that effort into housing the homeless or feeding the hungry or cleaning the environment. Heck, even picking strawberries would be more useful than fighting the police.
Fine. Be willfully obstuse. That’s how we end up with this gestapo-like aggression from the government. I hope they come to cleanse your neighborhood very soon.
I think that if the Trump administration came out, now, and said they were only going to arrest and deport violent criminals that are illegal migrants the response on the streets would be considerably more in their favor.
IMO that is what they should say and do, today. If they continue to sweep up 50 year old mothers and fathers who have been here for 10 or 20 years and are working and have no criminal record, which appears to be the plan, violence and resistance will continue and very likely get worse.
Then let's hope our men and women in law enforcement escalate to the point that the lesson comes across that you cannot touch law enforcement.
Let criminal aliens continue to violate the law or we will continue our stochastic terrorism campaign attack law enforcement ..
Amazing stuff.
My favorite is they have been here working, which is also a crime, I wonder if an out of work American would want that job, or maybe we could get someone of welfare Medicaid.
The problem is that it's never been about the actual violent criminals that MAGAites have an issue with. That's just the supposedly legitimate facade they use to give their bigoted base cover. It's that there are millions of Spanish speaking migrants and undocumented immigrants that, just by their presence, threaten the rightwing white male conservative Christian patriarchy in the former confederate States that are all deep red.
Frankly, they wouldn't care if every single undocumented immigrant was incapable of committing any other crime other than being here without papers. To them, being a "WOP" is bad enough, they just call them "illegals" instead of "WOP"s now, but they mean the exact same thing and it comes from the exact same ignorant xenophobia.
I agree, and Trump sort of said something like that last week. I have also heard that some kind of memo went out to that effect, but I haven’t seen any evidence of it and there certainly has not been an executive order.
In response, the people who run ICE are saying that they aren’t going to be cutting anyone any breaks, especially farmworkers. And I suspect the white supremacists from Project 2025 write all the executive orders, and Trump just signs whatever they lay in front of him. So don’t expect any change any time soon.