Tear gas deployed during protest at immigration raid in Ventura County

[riversedge]

Source: ktla.com




by: Lily Dallow Updated: Jul 10, 2025 / 02:28 PM PDT



Editor’s note: KTLA reached out to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for comment multiple times prior to publication. As of publishing, DHS has not responded. KTLA will update this article with any new information as it becomes available.


An immigration raid at a farm in Ventura County escalated on Thursday afternoon when U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents began firing tear gas on a crowd that had started to gather by the operation.

Sky5 launched toward the Glass House, located at 645 Laguna Road in Camarillo, after reports came in around 11:25 a.m. regarding a large federal law enforcement presence in the nearby fields, with witnesses saying agents were detaining workers. Another operation was also seen in progress at the Glass House’s location in Carpinteria.

At the location in Camarillo, KTLA’s Rich Prickett reported seeing roadways blocked on both north and southbound Laguna Road and protesters gathering on the front lines.

The scene escalated at around 12:35 p.m. when tear gas was seen being deployed into the crowd. Paramedics were requested to the scene for what authorities called a multi-casualty incident (MCI), according to Prickett, for multiple injuries.

At about 1:40 p.m., Sky5 had a view of at least 30 people sitting against a wall, with their hands cuffed together and brown paper bags in front of their feet. More detainees were seen around the area, possibly waiting to be taken to a detention center. It was not immediately clear whether any of the detainees were protest-related arrests.........................

Read more: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/possible-immigration-raid-escalates-tear-gas-deployed-at-camarillo-farm/

---

Also see this DU thread where I had posted some pictures:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220475288#post8

Link to tweet

[riversedge]

1. KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas

KTLA
@KTLA
·
59m
Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon. Details: https://ktla.com/news/local-new

Link to tweet

[wcmagumba]

5. Ice cowards with their military Blackhawk Choppers and masks gonna cut you peaceful protesters down..tuff guys...

[riversedge]

2. 🚨ICE raid at Ventura County farm underway. Proves all Trump's talk about not targeting immigrant workers on farms (or e

https://x.com/PaulaChert🚨ICE raid at Ventura County farm underway. Proves all Trump’s talk about not targeting immigrant workers on farms (or elsewhere for that matter) is just bullshit propaganda.

Trump’s entire regime like the man himself are consummate liars. Lies are the beating heart of fascism.ok/status/1943418656626741484

[maxsolomon]

11. He said that they wouldn't go after farms, then rescinded it.

Because he says whatever lie he feels fits the situation.

If they're going to make Stephen Miller's quotas, ICE has to grab farmworkers.

It's the meatpacking plants in Missouri/Iowa/Nebraska they're leaving alone.

[BadgerMom]

18. He lied.

Not shocking.

[maxsolomon]

23. He ONLY lies. He thinks in lies.

"It's not a lie if you believe it"
-G. Costanza

[Lovie777]

3. Not a sign for ICE..........

[riversedge]

4. Los Angeles Times @latimes · 19m Federal immigration agents carry out sweep at Ventura County

Los Angeles Times
@latimes
·
19m
Federal immigration agents carry out sweep at Ventura County cannabis farm

Link to tweet

[BadgerMom]

17. I read elsewhere that the cannabis farm is in Carpenteria, a Santa Barbara County town about 30 miles north.

It was a separate raid.

https://www.independent.com/2025/07/10/federal-raids-hit-glass-house-farms-locations-on-central-coast/

Gov. Newsom was in South Carolina today. Maybe the timing was planned to make him look irresponsible. We complained Cruz was in Italy when the floods hit. Or maybe it would have happened here anyway. He wants to break us.

[riversedge]

6. This post says it is a tomato farm........

Link to tweet

[riversedge]

7. This is what Republicans have done to our country. These people feed America, who is going to do those jobs? #DemsUnited

Rod (Izzy) Ⓜ️Ⓜ️ 🇺🇸🦅
@1zzyzyx1
·
2h
The Trump Gestapo agents are chasing farm workers and shooting at protestors in Camarillo, California, today. This is what Republicans have done to our country. These people feed America, who is going to do those jobs? #DemsUnited

Link to tweet

[C Moon]

8. trumps a lying sos evil freak

He keeps saying they will leave farms alone. Probably so the workers go to the fields and make easy quick pickings for evil ice freaks.

[republianmushroom]

9. America's own Gestapo .

Who would of ever thunk it, in America, land of the free. Another myth shot down, proving it was just a myth, Land of the Free.

[riversedge]

10. ICE has surrounded a field of farm workers.

Link to tweet

[FirstLight]

12. Has this made the rounds on the MSM at all?

I wonder if Lawrence will cover it tonight? I don't have cable so you guys will have to let me know... I'll watch for videos posted

This is absolutely abhorrent. And unfortunately it's just going to get worse and it's disgusting.🤬 I'm beyond angry and I don't know what to do. All I can do is continue to try and struggle through my own life it's not like I can go down there and stand in the way myself, being a 55 year old disabled woman. 🥺

I wonder how long it's going to take before they come to Tahoe? Considering that we have such a large immigrant population that works in our hotel and resort industries..

[in2herbs]

13. The threatened strike by farm workers cannot come fast enough. nt

[berniesandersmittens]

14. They gassed children!

Sick fucks. this must stop!

[Bayard]

15. Police state

trump is going to put Calif under martial law. You can just see it coming, as much jabbing at Newsom as anything else.

They weren't actually firing live rounds at protesters, just tear gas? (bad enough.) Also, what was with the brown paper bags put at the feet of detainees?

This is getting way, way out of hand now.

[Hekate]

19. They used "less lethal" bullets, flash-bang grenades, and tear gas canisters from what I read before

“Less lethal” can still maim you or kill you, and they were doing this in Los Angeles. One foreign journalist early on was shot in the thigh, and last I heard it was requiring some tricky surgery to remove the object and repair the wound. Other people have been blinded from getting shot in an eye.

This is very very bad shit.

[MayReasonRule]

16. When This Occurs Within A Heavily Armed Open Carry State...

The outcomes will be discussed forever more.

[hunter]

20. If they can bankrupt all the farms in that area and drive out all the Mexicans...

... they can turn that land into a Stephen Miller White People Suburban Paradise, a place where everyone votes Republican and there's no immigrants around to steal your girl.

[pfitz59]

21. Terror is the objective

Gives Trump and his pals sexual pleasure.

[Miguelito Loveless]

22. Unless you are Fox News

You will not get a response from the Orange Murder Regime.