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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A farmworker who fell from a greenhouse extortion during a chaotic ICE raid this week astatine a California cannabis installation died Saturday of his injuries.
Jaime Alanis, 57, is the archetypal known idiosyncratic to dice during 1 of the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration enforcement operations. Yesenia Duran, Alanis' niece, confirmed his decease to The Associated Press.
Duran posted connected the fundraising tract GoFundMe that her uncle was his family's lone supplier and helium had been sending his net backmost to a woman and girl successful Mexico. Alanis worked astatine the workplace for 10 years, his household said.
The United Farm Workers reported Alanis’ decease prematurely precocious Friday. The Ventura County Medical Center aboriginal issued a connection authorized by the household saying helium was inactive connected beingness support.
“These convulsive and cruel federal actions terrorize American communities, disrupt the American nutrient proviso chain, endanger lives and abstracted families,” the UFW said precocious successful a connection connected the societal level X. The national does not correspond workers astatine the raided farm.
The Department of Homeland Security said it executed transgression hunt warrants Thursday astatine Glass House Farms facilities successful Camarillo and Carpinteria. Glass House is simply a licensed cannabis grower. The workplace successful Camarillo besides grows tomatoes and cucumbers.
Garcia called household to accidental helium was hiding and perchance was fleeing agents earlier helium fell astir 30 feet (9 meters) from the extortion and broke his neck, according to accusation from family, infirmary and authorities sources.
Agents arrested immoderate 200 radical suspected of being successful the state illegally and identified astatine slightest 10 migrant children connected the sites, DHS said successful a statement. Alanis was not among them, the bureau said.
“This antheral was not successful and has not been successful CBP oregon ICE custody,” DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said successful a statement. “Although helium was not being pursued by instrumentality enforcement, this idiosyncratic climbed up to the extortion of a greenhouse and fell 30 feet. CBP instantly called a medivac to the country to get him attraction arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.”
Four U.S. citizens were arrested during the incidental for allegedly “assaulting oregon resisting officers,” according to DHS, and authorities were offering a $50,000 reward for accusation starring to the apprehension of a idiosyncratic suspected of firing a weapon astatine national agents.
During the raid crowds of radical gathered extracurricular the installation successful Camarillo to question accusation astir their relatives and protestation migration enforcement. Authorities clad successful military-style helmets and uniforms faced disconnected with the demonstrators, and radical yet retreated amid acrid greenish and achromatic billowing smoke.
Glass House said successful a connection that migration agents had valid warrants. The institution said workers were detained and it is helping supply them with ineligible representation.
“Glass House has ne'er knowingly violated applicable hiring practices and does not and has ne'er employed minors,” it said.
The concern was co-founded by Graham Farrar and Kyle Kazan. Farrar has donated to California Democrats including Gov. Gavin Newsom, a vocal professional of Republican President Donald Trump, according to run concern records. Kazan has donated to some Democrats and Republicans.
