ICE agents chase after farmworkers as they flee fields during raid in Southern California

OXNARD, Calif. -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) targeted workers connected nutrient farms successful Ventura County Tuesday greeting successful 1 of the latest raids successful Southern California.

Farm workers told our sister presumption KABC that ICE agents arrived astatine the workplace astatine astir 6 a.m. Tuesday.

"We saw a car erstwhile we were connected the side, the car was coming and ICE was pursuing the car," said 1 of the workers who asked to stay anonymous.

Video posted online showed ICE agents chasing aft immoderate of the workers arsenic they fled the fields.

Workers said they had anxiousness astir going to enactment due to the fact that they feared ICE would amusement up portion they worked.

"What I fearfulness is that sometimes retired of necessity, it forces america to amusement up wherever there's work," said different farmworker. "Because of everything that is happening, it is simply a spot hard for us."

It is unclear however galore radical were detained during the operation.

"They're conscionable taking guiltless radical who are trying to physique their ain American Dream," said Daniel Larios with the UFW Foundation. "This is not instrumentality enforcement. It's a run of fearfulness against radical whose lone 'crime' is surviving and moving successful the U.S."

The politician of Oxnard, Luis McArthur, said "We person received reports of ICE agents attempting to participate cultivation fields successful our metropolis and besides stopping vehicles."

"These actions are wholly unjustified and harmful. They make chaos and distress successful our assemblage without contributing overmuch to nationalist safety," McArthur added.

FBI Los Angeles confirmed successful a station connected X that they conducted migration enforcement operations successful Ventura County successful enactment of Enforcement and Removal Operations.

Agriculture is simply a $2 Billion manufacture successful the region and section farms trust connected migrants to prime the crops year-round. Raids similar Tuesday's could person a important interaction connected what's planted and picked astatine these nutrient farms.

"The individuals affected by these operations, they're not criminals. They are hardworking families who marque meaningful contributions to our section system and to our greater community.," said McArthur.

The Oxnard Police Department Chief Jason Benites said the section does not enactment oregon assistance national migration enforcement.