The crowd outside Glass House Farms in Camarillo in the wake of Thursday’s chaotic immigration sweep was a strange mix.
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There were vocal protesters hurling insults and sometimes water bottles at federal agents, and there were anxious friends and family of those who work at Glass House, a huge cannabis operation. Then there were curious bystanders like Mike Elliott, a Camarillo resident who voted for President Trump and stopped to see what was happening, saying he wanted to bear witness. Also on hand was Oxnard native Christina Muñoz, who said she brought her 2-year-old son, 5-month-old daughter and her mom in hopes of getting a glimpse of her husband, a member of the National Guard whom she hadn’t seen in 30 days.
Federal agents raided two Glass House Farms sites on Thursday, said Maria Navarro, an Oxnard policy advocate for the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE). The organization was alerted at 10:20 a.m. that sweeps were happening at both California locations of the company, in Carpinteria and Camarillo.
She hurried to the Camarillo site, where she came upon a tense scene, with protesters gathering and family members of workers trying to pick up their loved ones. But federal agents had already closed off access to the worksite. More and more people arrived, and Navarro said activists were trying to prevent trucks full of detainees from leaving.
‘Piled on by multiple agents all at once’
At the east entrance to the Camarillo facility, amid lush fields of blooming bush beans, the action started about 10 a.m. when federal agents entered the facility. Protesters and worried family began arriving soon afterward, and by 2:30 p.m., a line of about 30 agents, including National Guard members, was barricading nearby Laguna Road.
These leftist/Democrat attacks would not happen in states like Florida. And if the moronic leftists/Democrats tried to do the same thing, the results would be very different. President Trump just signed an order that allows ICE and other federal law enforcement to return engagement when leftists/Democrats are attacking their vehicles or them. Looking forward to watching those videos!
Guess what. ICE response to criticism about the two pot farms puts an entire look at the hyper leftest view of what happened.
It appears that ICE became involved when the two properties were implicated in not only illegal workers, but also were indicted with warrants for child trafficking. So the legal actions taken by ICE involved not 1 but 2 issues of Federal Law.
There is the issue of the HR representative who bulled his way into the ICE operation was ignorant of the charges or did not care for publicity. As video shows the HR forced his way into the security line and when rebuffed he struck an ICE officer that is assault.
There are 2 former Supervisors for the County of Santa Barbara who have been backers of the two pot farms and it appears took campaign money while in offic.
It STINKS and the Democrat Party in the entire State stinks right along with it.
Dem’s are inciting riots, and illegal activity because they are now outed as having Obama and Biden not caring about violations of Federal Law. Trump has called them on it and the increasing discoveries of hiding evidence, from the Russia Russia to the fake impeachment is destroying the base of the national Dem. party. It is so bad they are now embracing avowed Communists.
Still voting D? Why? Are you that blind?