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WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) - A California farmworker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier when U.S. immigration agents raided a cannabis operation and arrested hundreds of workers, according to a farmworker advocacy group.

Dozens of migrant-rights activists faced off with federal agents in rural Southern California on Thursday. It was the latest escalation of President Donald Trump's campaign to deport all immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

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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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Some citizen workers who were detained reported only being released from custody after deleting photos and videos of the raid from their phones, said UFW President Teresa Romero in a statement.

I'm sure everything was being done by the numbers.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 month ago

This is why you need to have this shit uploading to a remote server automatically in the background each time one is taken. Livestreams need to be happening as well.

[-] Tower@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

I was about to recommend the ACLUs "Mobile Justice" app that was designed to do just that, but instead learned that it was shut down in February. Fuck.

[-] modus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

To ensure compliance with a growing number of consumer privacy laws and the ACLU’s own privacy policies and to minimize risk with surveillance technologies currently used by law enforcement...

This sounds vaguely like coercion.

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

Cloud services are a big help here.

Also, delete doesn't mean delete on iOS there's an automatic grace period.

Also, depending on how closely they are watching it's very easy to save images and photos to Files, essentially a on device copy.

[-] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Yup. Scum ice racking up those numbers.

[-] Flockwit@lemmy.nz 42 points 1 month ago

It was the latest escalation of President Donald Trump's campaign to deport all immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

There are two ways to parse this sentence, and I suspect the most accurate parsing was not the one intended by Reuters.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

I am only able to interpret this sentence one way: that Trump is illegally deporting all immigrants. Please explain the other interpretation.

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago
  1. The immigrants are here illegally vs.
  2. The deporting is illegal
[-] hakase@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The other interpretation elides "who are":

"It was the latest escalation of President Donald Trump's campaign to deport all immigrants who are in the U.S. Illegally."

This is similar to a sentence like: "Please point out all the boys eating hot dogs quickly", which is also ambiguous in the same ways, but I feel shows the intended interpretation more clearly.

[-] TheLoneMinon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That the immigrants are IN the US illegally. Is my guess.

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah, especially since they are revoking visas and going after naturalized citizens. It's like they ran out of people to attack on day one.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

It's almost as if they had already been going after the criminals and deporting them...

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

wtf?

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.

[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago
[-] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Suicides, every one of them.

[-] h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Just pointing out that it is perfectly legal to open carry on private property. Requiring warrants and identification before allowing LE on premises is completely reasonable.

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

In California? Because it varies by state and having a gun is a good way to get shot by ICE

[-] Zron@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

It’s legal to be armed on your own property in all of America, provided you can legally own the firearm. Or if you’re a guest of the owner, you have to have their permission to be armed, because it is their property.

You might get looks from the neighbors, but it’s by no means a crime. If you’re in a rural area I doubt anyone would even look twice even in California.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

On private property, yes. Don't take it into public.

[-] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

What time did the raid start? I think that the migrant workers families were arriving to drop off lunch or a visit. That would explain how they got kids in their raid.

[-] Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That might have been the case, I cannot say. But I have seen plenty of kids working in the fields along side mommy and daddy hoeing weeds. It's still a fairly common thing.

I suspect do to the lack of day care, the kids have no where else to be besides along side the rest of the family working.

[-] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Under what logic does immigration enforcement deal with domestic production of cannabis.

(I know, 100 miles from any border, port of entry, federal land, Indian reservation, etc but still)

[-] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

They're not immigration enforcement. They're gestapo.

[-] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Cause brown people work on farms, duhhh

[-] j0ester@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Retard Whitehouse Press Secretary said: Enforcement operations require careful planning and execution; skills far beyond the purview or jurisdiction of any judge.

So in other words he’s saying, “we have top white men working on it…. They’re figuring out if they’re white or not. Did I mention we have top white men looking into it?”

[-] ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago
[-] j0ester@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

With a nose like Pinocchio, I’m sure many would see that MF on the streets.

[-] ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago
[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

It will take a decade or maybe more but they will be hunted.

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