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.
Illegal aliens and exploited children at a weed farm? That sounds like hitting the trifecta on social decay. Only in California, I guess?
Protestors rushed to the site, of course.
During the raid, federal agents faced off with protesters. Some threw rocks at their vehicles as they left.
Reuters reports that one worker dies after falling off a roof trying to escape,
Several farm workers were injured and one died on Friday from injuries sustained after a 30-foot (9-meter) fall from a building during the raid, said Elizabeth Strater, national vice president of the United Farm Workers.
I’m sure we’ll hear more about Thursday’s events.
