Federal brokers clashed with protesters throughout an immigration raid at a farm in Southern California, one in every of at the least two large-scale raids within the area on Thursday.
The incident occurred exterior of an agricultural farm alongside Laguna Street within the Camarillo space of Ventura County.
In a press release to ABC Information on Thursday, a Division of Homeland Safety spokesperson mentioned the farm was a marijuana facility.
Federal brokers clashed with protesters throughout an immigration raid at a farm in Southern California, July 10, 2025.
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“DHS regulation enforcement is executing a warrant at a marijuana facility. Our courageous officers will proceed to implement the regulation,” the spokesperson mentioned.
ABC Information’ Los Angeles station noticed a number of clashes between onlookers, or protesters, and federal brokers, with at the least one individual being detained.
Footage from the clashes noticed federal brokers pinning somebody to the bottom.
Federal brokers clashed with protesters throughout an immigration raid at a farm in Southern California, July 10, 2025.
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Federal brokers, who had been masked throughout the clashes, appeared to make use of crowd management measures, together with deploying irritants.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s workplace launched a press release on the immigration enforcement, calling it “inhumane.”
“There’s an actual price to those inhumane immigration actions on hardworking households and communities, together with farmworker communities, throughout America.”
Newsom’s workplace mentioned within the assertion that the Trump administration’s ways “evoke chaos, concern and terror inside our communities at each flip.”
One other large-scale immigration operation was seen in Carpinteria, California, north of Ventura County.
The coastal city’s metropolis council known as for a gathering on Thursday to debate the uptick in immigration enforcement within the space, which noticed two raids earlier this week, in keeping with town.
Elevated immigration enforcement comes as President Donald Trump has instructed ICE officers to do “all of their energy” to supervise the most important mass deportation program in historical past.
Federal brokers clashed with protesters throughout an immigration raid at a farm in Southern California, July 10, 2025.
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On Monday, closely armed federal border brokers and U.S. troops descended upon MacArthur Park in Los Angeles as a part of an immigration raid that appeared to show up largely empty.
The operation, which included 90 armed troops and 17 navy Humvees, displaced a summer time day camp, in keeping with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who mentioned the one level of the operation seemed to be “a political agenda of scary concern and terror.”
“To me, that is one other instance of the administration ratcheting up chaos by deploying what seemed like a navy operation in an American metropolis,” Bass mentioned.
Earlier this summer time, Trump deployed some 4,700 troops to California below a regulation often known as Title 10, which permits the usage of navy forces to guard federal personnel and federal property.
The president’s motion got here as anti-immigration enforcement protests gripped town, which noticed each peaceable marches and violent clashes with regulation enforcement.
