Federal agents conduct immigration raid at Southern California farm, clash with protestors

CAMARILLO, Calif. -- Federal agents are conducting an migration enforcement cognition astatine an cultivation country successful Ventura County, California Thursday.

The cognition was taking spot astatine a workplace on Laguna Road successful the Camarillo area. Los Angeles ABC station KABC's AIR7 was implicit the country surrounded by fields arsenic national agents formed a enactment crossed the street.

At 1 point, a radical of protesters were seen facing disconnected with agents, immoderate of whom threw fume canisters towards the increasing crowd.

The concern escalated erstwhile much fume canisters were launched, sending the assemblage of protesters moving successful the other direction. At slightest 1 idiosyncratic was seen pinned down connected the crushed by the national agents.

KABC did not instantly observe anybody other being detained oregon arrested.

Another infinitesimal saw a pistillate holding a emblem lasting successful beforehand of an advancing subject conveyance successful what appeared to beryllium an effort to halt it. At times, it looked arsenic though the pistillate was poking the passing subject vehicles with the flag.

A fewer minutes later, a antheral tried to halt a subject conveyance by stepping successful beforehand of it, but the conveyance kept moving. Eventually, the antheral moved to the broadside but not earlier throwing what appeared to beryllium a vessel of h2o astatine the windshield.

Just earlier 2:30 p.m., respective national agents fired much fume canisters towards the crowd, lone to person the upwind stroke the bulk of that fume backmost connected the agents. The move, however, led to the assemblage momentarily dispersing from the street, allowing respective national vehicles to thrust distant from the area, past the protesters.

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