Hundreds arrested in immigration raid at 2 California farms
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A California judge said it was likely that the Trump administration broke the law by arresting people 'without reasonable suspicion.'
An ICE raid on a farm in Ventura County, California had an especially brutal outcome. Jaime Alanís Garcia, a Mexican farmworker who spent nearly a decade picking tomatoes in California, is now on life support after falling 30 feet while fleeing an immigration raid.
A federal judge in California issued two restraining orders blocking federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from conducting random detentions of people in Los Angeles and denying access to legal advice.
Civil rights groups alleged that ICE and Border Patrol agents are rounding people up based on their race, and denying them access to lawyers. A federal judge said there's evidence what they're doing is illegal.
A federal judge temporarily halted the administration from making indiscriminate arrests based on race and denying detainees access to lawyers, in a lawsuit that could have national repercussions.
Garcia, an Anaheim resident and car wash worker was detained on July 3 during an immigration raid at his workplace. His family is fighting to free him from custody.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) took to social media Thursday to bash a federal immigration raid on a large cannabis farm in Southern California, where agents clashed with protesters and sprayed
The raid resulted in little more than an empty park and increased tensions between the federal government and Los Angeles’s mayor.