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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: SVPete on July 11, 2025, 11:13:19 AM
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Shots Fired at CA Weed Farm ICE Raid: Child Labor, Tear Gas and Blackhawks [WATCH]
https://www.lifezette.com/2025/07/shots-fired-at-ca-weed-farm-ice-raid-child-labor-tear-gas-and-blackhawks-watch/ (https://www.lifezette.com/2025/07/shots-fired-at-ca-weed-farm-ice-raid-child-labor-tear-gas-and-blackhawks-watch/)
Federal immigration authorities encountered resistance Thursday during enforcement operations at two marijuana farms north of Los Angeles.
The raids, carried out at Glass House Farms facilities in Camarillo and Carpinteria, targeted the employment of individuals living in the country illegally, according to federal officials.
Federal agents executed warrants related to immigration violations at the state-licensed cannabis operations, which remain illegal under federal law despite California’s marijuana legalization.
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Federal agents deployed tear gas and smoke devices in an effort to disperse the growing crowd.
Military helicopters were seen flying low over the fields during the operation, a tactic used to identify individuals attempting to evade capture.
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U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli confirmed that an unknown suspect fired at federal officers during the operation and announced a reward related to the incident.
“FBI has issued a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an Unknown Subject who appeared to fire a pistol at Federal Law Enforcement Officers near Camarillo,” Essayli posted on X.
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In response (to a whine by NewScum), Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott posted details about what agents encountered.
“Here’s some breaking news: 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility – all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied. It’s now under investigation for child labor violations,” Scott stated.
Goobernor Noisome is OK with:
* Illegals working - either paid under the table or by stealing someone's identity and screwing up those victims' lives - possibly less than minimum wage, at weed farms;
* Unaccompanied children being trafficked to work on the weed farms;
* Child labor at the weed farm(s);
* Antifoids/Transtifoids shooting at Federal personnel executing a properly obtained warrant.
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That bullshit will stop when they start shooting and running these people over without slowing down AND have no fear of reprisals. It’s coming.
KC
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The libs were ranting and raving last night when I first heard the story. Several Dems were screaming that this was a strawberry farm. ICE had a warrant, and naturally the leftist claims were echoed by the obedient media. :mental:
A related link:
DHS Has a Question for Newsom After Who Was Found Working at California Marijuana Facility
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott confirmed 10 of the individuals discovered during an immigration enforcement operation at cannabis farms in Camarillo, California, were illegal immigrant minors.
Responding to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s X post calling President Trump “the real scum,” Scott revealed the “breaking news.”
“Here’s some breaking news: 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility - all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied,” he said. “It’s now under investigation for child labor violations. This is Newsom’s California.”
The Department of Homeland Security's X account also responded to Newsom's post: "Why are there children working at a marijuana facility, Gavin?"
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/07/11/dhs-has-a-question-for-newsom-after-who-was-found-working-at-california-marijuana-facility-n2660233
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Bill Melugin Torpedoes Dem Rep's Dishonest Post About ICE Raid at Calif. 'Strawberry' Farm
Last night there was an ICE raid at a California cannabis farm where officers were serving a criminal warrant signed by a federal judge. A mob fought back against the officers and somebody fired shots at the agents.
Fox News' Bill Melugin reported that several unaccompanied minors were at the farm, and that's being investigated for "potential child labor violations":
Keep all this in mind before we get to a post from Democrat Rep. Jimmy Gomez:
Rep. Jimmy Gomez
@RepJimmyGomez
How many MS-13 gang members are waking up at 3 a.m. to pick strawberries? O’yeah, zero!
Trump said he’d go after “bad hombres,” but he’s targeting the immigrant farm workers who feed America. Either he lied — or he can’t tell the difference.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
Just actively dishonest to keep pushing this narrative when it’s been widely reported since this afternoon that this is a criminal warrant being served at a cannabis farm - not “farm workers who feed America”.
There is no food being grown here. No strawberries either.
The Dems have a three-pronged strategy these days: Lie, lie again and then lie some more.
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/07/11/bill-melugin-torpedoes-dem-reps-actively-dishonest-post-about-ice-raid-at-calif-weed-farm-n2415518
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There are real strawberry farms in the Camarillo area (as anyone who has used US 101 to drive south into the Land of LA could see). Sadly the weed farm(s) may be former strawberry farms. That said, Dems claiming strawberry farms were raided are knowingly lying, trying to fool the public with a more sympathetic location.
Unfortunately, Antifoids and Transtifoids are probably trying to provoke a violent incident of that sort, Texacon. ICE and the Border Patrol people need to get video from multiple camera angles of every raid and be prepared to teach Dem pols that their MSM shills no longer have an information monopoly.
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The libs were ranting and raving last night when I first heard the story. Several Dems were screaming that this was a strawberry farm. ICE had a warrant, and naturally the leftist claims were echoed by the obedient media. :mental:
A related link:
DHS Has a Question for Newsom After Who Was Found Working at California Marijuana Facility
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott confirmed 10 of the individuals discovered during an immigration enforcement operation at cannabis farms in Camarillo, California, were illegal immigrant minors.
Responding to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s X post calling President Trump “the real scum,” Scott revealed the “breaking news.”
“Here’s some breaking news: 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility - all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied,” he said. “It’s now under investigation for child labor violations. This is Newsom’s California.”
The Department of Homeland Security's X account also responded to Newsom's post: "Why are there children working at a marijuana facility, Gavin?"
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/07/11/dhs-has-a-question-for-newsom-after-who-was-found-working-at-california-marijuana-facility-n2660233
but the liberals are concerned that without illegal child labor, who will pick the weed?
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Bill Melugin Torpedoes Dem Rep's Dishonest Post About ICE Raid at Calif. 'Strawberry' Farm
Last night there was an ICE raid at a California cannabis farm where officers were serving a criminal warrant signed by a federal judge. A mob fought back against the officers and somebody fired shots at the agents.
Fox News' Bill Melugin reported that several unaccompanied minors were at the farm, and that's being investigated for "potential child labor violations":
Keep all this in mind before we get to a post from Democrat Rep. Jimmy Gomez:
The Dems have a three-pronged strategy these days: Lie, lie again and then lie some more.
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/07/11/bill-melugin-torpedoes-dem-reps-actively-dishonest-post-about-ice-raid-at-calif-weed-farm-n2415518
There are lies, damned lies, and things democrats say.
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There are lies, damned lies, and things democrats say.
There's a distinction? :rimshot:
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There's a distinction? :rimshot:
Just the purity level of the bullshit. :popcorn:
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One California worker dead, hundreds arrested, after cannabis farm raid
https://srnnews.com/one-california-worker-dead-hundreds-arrested-after-cannabis-farm-raid/ (https://srnnews.com/one-california-worker-dead-hundreds-arrested-after-cannabis-farm-raid/)
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that approximately 200 people in the country illegally were arrested in the raid, which targeted two locations of the cannabis operation Glass House Farms.
Agents also found 10 migrant minors at the farm, the statement said. The facility is under investigation for child labor violations, said Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott in a post on X.
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Several farmworkers were injured and one died on Friday from injuries sustained after a 30-foot fall from a building during the raid, said Elizabeth Strater, national vice president of the United Farm Workers.
My emphasis. It is very possible that what triggered this raid being done at this time was the child labor violations.
I'm speculating that the 30-foot fall was an attempt to escape arrest.
That a UFW thug-leader is commenting suggests that the UFW was aware of and supporting both the hiring of the illegals generally and of the trafficked minors particularly. Do you get the feeling I have less than zero love for the UFW? My Dad was a farmer.
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LA Mayor Bass provides cash payments to illegals, issues order to thwart immigration enforcement
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed an executive order Friday to bolster protocols and support immigrant neighborhoods, including offering cash assistance, in response to raids by the Trump administration targeting those living in the United States illegally.
The order is intended to help protect the city's workforce and residents from the federal government during immigration enforcement operations. It also demands that federal agencies provide records of the raids, who was detained and for what reason and the cost to taxpayers, which will be part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
"There is a need for me to have an executive directive to help our city understand how to protect itself from our federal government," Bass said at a press conference. "What we have seen here over the last, now six weeks of raids that pop up, and we never know exactly when and where they're going to happen.
"The directive will help city workers know how to address immigration officials should they approach a city department," she added.
The order also requires city departments to create a plan for protocols and training on how to comply with Los Angeles' sanctuary city ordinance.
In addition, Bass said a plan is being worked out to provide cash assistance to those affected by the enforcement operations, the Los Angeles Times reported. Cash cards with a "couple hundred" dollars on them will be distributed by immigrants' rights groups in about a week, Bass said.
The money will not come from city coffers, but from philanthropic partners, she said.
"You’re telling me that isn’t a Babylon Bee headline?" a White House spokesperson told Fox News Digital, referring to the satirical news site. "Recent immigration enforcement in California has resulted in successfully detaining countless violent criminals and liberating children from illegal labor exploitation. But instead of helping these children or putting American citizens first, Bass is doubling down on her defense of illegal aliens.
"Americans are sick of these pathetic stunts from Democrat politicians. That’s why they elected President Trump," the spokesperson added. "They want someone who will put America First, and it’s certainly not Karen, Gavin & Co."
Bass has condemned immigration operations targeting criminal illegal immigrants in the city. Los Angeles is one of several cities suing the Trump administration over the "unlawful" raids.
Immigration agents on Thursday raided a cannabis farm in nearby Ventura County to target illegal immigrants working there. Ten illegal immigrant minors, eight of them unaccompanied, were found at the farm, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/la-mayor-bass-provides-cash-payments-illegals-issues-order-thwart-immigration-enforcement
Really hope the lib-tards keep doing this. Picking the absolute wrong side of issues is their specialty.
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California clinic staffers seek to shield ICE agents from detaining Honduran landscaper
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-clinic-staffers-seek-shield-ice-agents-from-detaining-honduran-landscaper
Staff at a California surgical center were captured on video trying to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from arresting a Honduran landscaper this week, with one telling a federal officer "you don’t even have a warrant for him."
The tense scene unfolded Tuesday at the Ontario Advanced Surgery Center, located about 30 miles east of Los Angeles.
"Get your hands off of him," one staff member in blue scrubs is heard saying, shielding the man from an immigration agent. "Let him go. You need to get out."
California clinic staffs are just as bad. They should be arrested and sent off to prison. :mad:
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Democrats are just pissed that their voting base has shrunk due to its members being arrested.
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Democrats are just pissed that their voting base has shrunk due to its members being arrested.
And with the weed farms losing 200 employees, the supply of weed might be lessened and weed prices increased. :stoner: :-) :tongue:
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Democrats like to boast of how they fight for minimum wage laws, and yet, there are untold numbers of employers potentially circumventing those laws by employing people residing in the country illegally. :thatsright:
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Cannabis farm immigration raid
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/07/cannabis-farm-immigration-raid.php (https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/07/cannabis-farm-immigration-raid.php)
The details are just too staggering to digest in one sitting. From KABC Los Angeles,
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced that 319 people were arrested during dual immigration raids at cannabis farms near Camarillo in Ventura County and the coastal city of Carpinteria on Thursday.
Noem said 14 children were rescued from potential forced labor, exploitation, and trafficking during the operation.
Just in case a DU-Onlurker didn't pay attention to details, TWO weed farms were raided. The 200 arrests and 10 exploited minors mentioned in early reports were from the weed farm at Camarillo. This report adds the stats from the Carpinteria weed farm raid. Carpinteria is 25 or 30 miles from Camarillo.
WRT my speculation about how the one illegal died, https://gazette.com/news/us-world/one-dead-hundreds-arrested-in-us-farm-raid-as-judge-orders-pause-to-aggressive-tactics/article_00db3d51-d982-5313-8cf7-90c2ea442299.html
DHS said its agents were not responsible for the man's death, saying that "although he was not being pursued by law enforcement, this individual climbed up to the roof of a green house and fell 30 feet." Agents immediately called for a medical evacuation, DHS said.
I was incorrect in assuming that he was being pursued.
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This is who and what Noisome and other Dems are defending:
ICE Agents Nabbed A Child Predator at Newsom Donor's Cannabis Farm
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/13/ice-agents-nabbed-a-child-predator-in-cannabis-farm-bust-n4941709 (https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/13/ice-agents-nabbed-a-child-predator-in-cannabis-farm-bust-n4941709)
Among the 319 illegal immigrants arrested was a man whose criminal record is nothing short of horrifying: previously sentenced to seven years for kidnapping and attempted rape, with a prior conviction for attempted child molestation. This is not some minor offender swept up in a dragnet—this is a convicted child predator, working side by side with young children. Fourteen children, many from Mexico and Honduras, were rescued from the farm, where they were forced to endure conditions now under investigation for possible child labor violations. The fact that a predator with such a record was allowed anywhere near minors is a damning indictment of California’s leadership—I’m looking at you, Gavin Newsom—and its reckless disregard for the safety of the most vulnerable.
How did this happen? Do you think the farm’s connection to Newsom had anything to do with it? As Fox News Digital notes, “The company's co-founder, president and board director, Graham Farrar, donated $10,000 to California Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2018, among other Democratic politicians.”
I’m sure that’s just a coincidence, right?
But rather than express outrage at the exploitation of children or the presence of a known sexual predator among the workers, California’s Democratic leadership and their allies in the media have directed their fury at federal law enforcement, and Donald Trump.
The MSM probably won't call Dems out for it, the Dems will have to do a lot of tap-dancing to make their, "He shouldn't have got caught," argument.
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The feds need to go after mayor bass and trim her sails :thatsright: :loser: :bird:
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Facts Dems' MSM-Shills don't want heard keep coming out, https://www.theblaze.com/news/pot-farm-raid-update-trumps-dhs-found-convicted-rapists-and-kidnappers-working-near-migrant-kids :
Glass House Farms, the farms' owner, confirmed that federal authorities obtained valid warrants to perform their sweep. The business claimed, "Glass House has never knowingly violated applicable hiring practices and does not and has never employed minors."
The DHS revealed the identities of some of the arrested illegal aliens, including Roman Izquierdo, a Mexican national convicted of kidnapping, attempted rape, and attempted child molestation. Izquierdo was previously sentenced to seven years in prison, and ICE deported him in 2006.
Scott stated, "This felon was working at the same farm as 10 kids — one being 14 yrs old."
Federal agents also arrested Juan Duarte-Velasquez, a Mexican national convicted of rape and a DUI; Jose Orellana, a Salvadoran national convicted of a DUI and a hit-and-run with property damage; and Adriana Gonzalez-Gonzalez, a Mexican national convicted of burglary three times and a DUI.
My emphasis.
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I can see that tweet by Rep. Gomez has especially poorly.