HAPPENING NOW: ICE agents raid Ventura County Farm in California. Reporter: "It's gonna be at least 100 workers being d

[riversedge]

Easy picking for ICE!


HAPPENING NOW: ICE agents raid Ventura County Farm in California.

Reporter: "It's gonna be at least 100 workers being detained, maybe even a couple of hundred."

What the heck is happening in Trump's America?

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[Jilly_in_VA]

1. How fucking stupid is ICE Barbie?

Seriously. Is she trying to create food shortages in the country?

[awesomerwb1]

9. Maybe their rich corporate buddies want to buy bankrupt farms/land

for pennies on the dollar while hurting California (and the rest of the country but they don't care).

[FoggyLake]

25. Trump hates CA and is probably trying to devastate our economy

[Johonny]

35. Only the people he is kicking in the balls

Mostly vote GOP.

[Attilatheblond]

30. BINGO! fields in Ventura County are some of the most productive in the US, possibly the world.

So many farmers lost their lands due to the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Those who managed to get back to farming worked damned hard, were good neighbors and trusted friends. Time passed, land changed hands, but that land in that perfect climate is STILL extremely productive. Of course BIG AG wants independents off that land.

Lived there for years and this is breaking my heart. Can't imagine what those farmers and farm workers are feeling now. Any, you, America, you are about to suffer more than you can imagine. Think Big Oil is a problem when they have you by the gas tank? I've been preaching for decades that BIG AG is coming for your bellies.

This is NOT about gangs, criminals, drugs, violent brown people. It's about screwing EVERYBODY

[BoRaGard]

51. Bingo Bango Bongo!

What you said.

GOP Biggies want to take over the bankrupted farms with their stinking hedge funds, etc.

[mcar]

18. They think "able bodied" lazy Medicaid recipients will take the jobs

despite the fact that the unemployment rate is 4.1% and many if not most working-age Medicaid recipients already have jobs (hello Walmart!).

[Attilatheblond]

31. Also, pretty sure most Medicaid recipients are not withing reasonable commuting distance from farms.

[mcar]

43. Good point

[Johonny]

36. Its not like heath insurance comes with these jobs

[mcar]

44. I believe Walmart deliberately keeps employees

under the hourly threshhold for providing benefits - and helps them apply for Medicaid.

[riversedge]

2. 🚨🇺🇸#BREAKING NEWS ⚠️ Multiple Sikorsky Black Hawks have arrived and our landing in Camarillo in Ventura, California

🚨🇺🇸#BREAKING | NEWS ⚠️
Multiple Sikorsky Black Hawks have arrived and our landing in Camarillo in Ventura, California after major ICE immigration raid has gone sideways as hundreds of protesters have showed up and are fighting with the police and ice agents

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[wcmagumba]

3. T-rump is probably gleeful and having his goons installing those "special" showers just like they had in Poland in 1945.

Musk calls those "the good old days"....Sieg-fuck all you modern day Nazis...

[kacekwl]

13. Yep, just another day in

Nazi America. Can't wait until the day his entire cabinet is swinging at the end of a rope

[riversedge]

4. Children, protesters. ets running from tear gas..........

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[riversedge]

5. ICE shoot "less than lethal" bullets & tear gas canisters into crowd--of unarmed civilians who were filming them.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻
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ICE shoot "less than lethal" bullets & tear gas canisters into crowd—of unarmed civilians who were filming them.

At least 1 person pinned down to ground by agents.

Paramedics called in for what they called a "multi-casualty incident."

More than 30 people were detained in raids at multiple farms in Ventura County, California.

#DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnited

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[senseandsensibility]

7. Seems like CNN, MSNBC should be covering this

although it does always take them quite a while to get to west coast stories.

[Hekate]

41. Jake Soboroff covers Los Angeles briliantly, which is a huge territory. He makes it out to other SoCal areas...

…but the more California comes under attack, the more reporters MSNBC will have to deploy.

This is heinous.

[riversedge]

6. ... A large percentage of strawberries and other fresh foods shipped throughout the country are grown and harvested here

Berniegirl No More
@Hedgesgurl
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ICE is now raiding a farm in Ventura County. A large percentage of strawberries and other fresh foods shipped throughout the country are grown and harvested here. These migrants are vital to this industry and the CA economy.

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[riversedge]

8. More video footage from local news reports.👇 Reporter: "It appeared very peaceful until just a few

More video footage from local news reports.👇

Reporter: "It appeared very peaceful until just a few minutes ago, when it looks like border patrol launched some sort of smoke-type irritant like tear gas... our crew had to get outta there."

A farm in Ventura County, California.

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[Jilly_in_VA]

10. One of these raids

is going to turn into a real battle very soon. Bullets, real ones, will be fired on both sides. Then we'll be seeing "multiple casualties"> I wouldn't blame farm workers if they started packing heat.

[Norrrm]

15. More like desparate farmers packing heat, facing bankruptcy.

[jmbar2]

11. Protesters should jam the roads with cars - create a traffic jam.

"I was just going to the store for some strawberries when I got caught in all this traffic".

[FHRRK]

28. They did

Reports of cars left at intersection so NG couldn’t get through.

[jmbar2]

40. Excellent!!

[AntiFascist]

12. A cannabis farm in Carpinteria was also raided this morning, resulting in a large protest

UPDATE: ICE Raids Glass House Farms in Carpinteria with National Guard, Prompting Large Protest
Stun Grenades and Smoke Shot into Crowd of Peaceful Protestors
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Several witnesses stated they saw some DEA identification for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Cannabis is legalized in the State of California but on the federal level, cannabis remains illegal. The federal government classifies cannabis, along with heroin and cocaine, as a Schedule I drug.

“It’s very hard to make a distinction between agencies here. Are they ICE, Police, DEA, Military, contractors… who are these guys?” a protestor stated.
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The City of Carpinteria has scheduled an emergency meeting at 6:00 p.m. Thursday to consider a Statement of Proclamation from the City Council regarding the recent ICE activity.

The meeting will also consider appropriation of funds for response efforts to support the local immigrant community and consider additional city responses to ICE activity.

https://www.edhat.com/news/update-ice-raids-glass-house-farms-in-carpinteria-with-national-guard-prompting-large-protest/

[uncle ray]

49. thanks for providing a source that's not fucking twitter.

[Deuxcents]

14. TSF will cause food shortages and try to ruin California's economy..he can't be outdone by a Democrat

I think he purposely picked California to test just how far he can go before we fight back with more than protests and blocked roads

[Hekate]

42. Agreed. California is the test case for using the military for the coup. It's sick, & I live here in Ventura

I used to live in the Santa Barbara area — all these little cities are real places to me. This is the sickest, most insane thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

Postscript — how soon before MAGAs notice the lack of fruits and veggies? How much does anyone want to bet they never put 2+2 together?

[Norrrm]

16. Any arrests of those who hire the 'illegals'/undocs?

[travelingthrulife]

45. Never.

[sop]

17. Looks like TACO Trump is chickening out on his amnesty proposal for farm workers.

His MAGA racist nationalists have spoken.

[IcyPeas]

19. My head is going to explode... that we can't stop this.... and it's going to get worse...

Once they hire thousands more goons..... there will be so many of them.... they'll be knocking on our doors soon checking papers.

[Mike 03]

27. I'm also truly disturbed by these events.

I still cannot get the images out of my mind of ICE agents tackling and tasing a man in Walmart. Some of this video is so vicious. I cannot understand the extreme aggression against these vulnerable people. What does it say about our country that ICE is able to find so many people who can do this work without hesitation, apparently without a second thought from their consciences?

[travelingthrulife]

47. The DOGE boys and Musk activities gives them the data to find these people

so quickly. You are in their database as well, no doubt, to be used if necessary. Includes current location.

[B.See]

20. "What's happening in Trump's America?" Trump's Fascist America??

TRUMP is happening. And all the horrors America had been REPEATEDLY warned of.

[speak easy]

21. Miller

[LoisB]

24. Yep.

[William Seger]

26. Off to Alligator Auschwitz with 'em

He enjoys his work.

[DBoon]

37. he embodies the banality of evil

[Beacool]

22. I'm starting to hate every idiot who voted for Trump.

I don't care about their reasoning, they can all go to hell. They're collaborators, as far as I'm concerned.

[Scrivener7]

23. Will the employer face any consequences for employing hundreds of undocumented people? Because if not,

he's just going to hire hundreds more.

This has nothing to do with undocumented immigrants. It's a hunting party for the good old boys.

If you prosecute the employers, the "problem" goes away tomorrow. If you don't, it's just a revolving door and an exercise in cruelty against vulnerable people.

And knowing this, they don't prosecute the employers. So this just has to do with hunting and feeling superior to other people.

[MadameButterfly]

39. I'm not so sure the farm owner will be able to keep finding immigrants

who will show up and work after this.
Prosecuting employers solves one problem, but then, where do we get our food?

But the impetus for all of this is as you say. There never was anything useful about Trump's immigration politcy except to let a bunch of bullies play war.

[travelingthrulife]

48. And providing cheap labor for farmers and other industries.

They will keep that cheap labor flowing with immigrant detention center labor, child labor, prison labor. The prison industry is making a killing renting out slaves as day labor. Who knows? Maybe those of us who did not produce children go to the Island of Useless Eaters.

[Cirsium]

52. Not true

This is just not true. It is disappointing that Democrats accept the right wing framing on this. We don't need a "solution" because there isn't a problem. The problem was manufactured by the right wingers.

[Scrivener7]

55. Way to miss the point! Did you miss the quotes around "problem"? Or did you not understand what that means?

[Cirsium]

56. I guess so

Yes, I probably misunderstood you. Are you not suggesting that employers should be prosecuted? That is a remedy commonly recommended by people here. I saw that you had the word problem in quotation marks, yes. So if you agree that there isn't a problem, why the suggested remedy?

[Scrivener7]

57. I'm saying that if they ACTUALLY had a problem with illegal immigration, they could easily end it by prosecuting

employers. The fact that they are not using that much simpler "solution" tells us that they don't really believe it's a problem at all.

And THAT tells us this has nothing to do with illegal immigration. It's nothing but an opportunity for them to "other" a vulnerable group, an opportunity for good ol' boy hunting parties that make a certain segment of the population feel superior to another segment, and an opportunity to instill fear in their base.

They aren't doing the thing that we all know would achieve their stated goal - which, yes, is not OUR goal at all, but this is a different point. Them not going after their stated goal tells us it was never really their goal. It's just theater and manipulation of their base, and they don't care how many people suffer for it.

[Cirsium]

58. Got it

I agree. Thanks for the clarification. Sorry for the confusion.

[ImNotGod]

29. There needs to be an organized response, protests against the people responsible for the fascists, big money

go to the gated neighborhoods, homes of the rich elites who pull the fascist strings, they are well known, well publicised. Put a lot of pressure on them, where they work, where they live and change will happen quick. Follow the money.,

[Kali999]

32. He's trying

to cripple Califonia and end it. Motherfucker

[Beachnutt]

33. Are they arresting the owners of the farm

they know they are hiring undocumented folks and they housed them.
They should arrest and fine the cooperate ceo's if they are going to arrest the workers.

[haele]

46. Thing is, maybe only 10% are really undocumented

I used to live in Oxnard. Most of the pickers and farm.laborers from Central America are here on H2-A and others here on Humanitarian Amnesty Visas that allow.them to work.
There's thriving under the table visa based sub-contract labor businesses moving migrant and refugee farm and construction workers around - many of these businesses are run by people associated with Customs and Border Patrol, getting notified when one of those "caravans" come up through Mexico and meeting their contacts who had been recruiting likely seasonal workers that could easily qualify for a visa to work, if they hadn't already applied before the migration started.
The whole border problem is a scam of immense proportions.
Living in a border town, it's been obvious just observing the migration situation that a good 3/4 of "undocumented" border crossers or amnesty seekers have sponsors here in the US that will help them find housing and work once they get to the border and enter the system.

[BidenRocks]

34. Secession is always an option

The Gov. also has the rest of the guard.
Activate them to protect us from the Federalized ones.

[MissouriDem47]

38. TACO

TACO is hoping that this will lead to demonstrations which will give him an excuse to declare martial law. Midterms next year maybe only a dream.

[BoRaGard]

50. G.O.P. is fixing to starve the American people

[purple_haze]

53. Was this the marijuana grow?

The one where the (allegedly) antifa guy was shooting at cops? Thats the only one I saw in the news yesterday.

[yardwork]

54. That farm didn't pay Trump his tribute.

It's like Tony Soprano is running the U.S.

Only more stupid and foul-mouthed. Even Tony loved his kids.

[msfiddlestix]

59. Countdown Gestapo raids in to Kern and San Joaquin Counties ? And then Central Valleys.