WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) - A California farmworker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier when U.S. immigration agents raided a cannabis operation and arrested hundreds of workers, according to a farmworker advocacy group.

Dozens of migrant-rights activists faced off with federal agents in rural Southern California on Thursday. It was the latest escalation of President Donald Trump's campaign to deport all immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that approximately 200 people in the country illegally were arrested in the raid, which targeted two locations of the cannabis operation Glass House Farms.

Agents also found 10 migrant minors at the farm, the statement said. The facility is under investigation for child labor violations, said Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott in a post on X.

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[–] 222 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

Some citizen workers who were detained reported only being released from custody after deleting photos and videos of the raid from their phones, said UFW President Teresa Romero in a statement.

I'm sure everything was being done by the numbers.

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  • [–] 123 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is why you need to have this shit uploading to a remote server automatically in the background each time one is taken. Livestreams need to be happening as well.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was about to recommend the ACLUs "Mobile Justice" app that was designed to do just that, but instead learned that it was shut down in February. Fuck.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    To ensure compliance with a growing number of consumer privacy laws and the ACLU’s own privacy policies and to minimize risk with surveillance technologies currently used by law enforcement...

    This sounds vaguely like coercion.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Cloud services are a big help here.

    Also, delete doesn't mean delete on iOS there's an automatic grace period.

    Also, depending on how closely they are watching it's very easy to save images and photos to Files, essentially a on device copy.

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  • [–] 79 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    It was the latest escalation of President Donald Trump's campaign to deport all immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

    There are two ways to parse this sentence, and I suspect the most accurate parsing was not the one intended by Reuters.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I am only able to interpret this sentence one way: that Trump is illegally deporting all immigrants. Please explain the other interpretation.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    The other interpretation elides "who are":

    "It was the latest escalation of President Donald Trump's campaign to deport all immigrants who are in the U.S. Illegally."

    This is similar to a sentence like: "Please point out all the boys eating hot dogs quickly", which is also ambiguous in the same ways, but I feel shows the intended interpretation more clearly.

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  • [–] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    wtf?

    Several farmworkers were injured and one died on Friday from injuries sustained after a 30-foot fall from a building during the raid, said Elizabeth Strater, national vice president of the United Farm Workers.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (24 children)

    Just pointing out that it is perfectly legal to open carry on private property. Requiring warrants and identification before allowing LE on premises is completely reasonable.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (23 children)

    In California? Because it varies by state and having a gun is a good way to get shot by ICE

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    It’s legal to be armed on your own property in all of America, provided you can legally own the firearm. Or if you’re a guest of the owner, you have to have their permission to be armed, because it is their property.

    You might get looks from the neighbors, but it’s by no means a crime. If you’re in a rural area I doubt anyone would even look twice even in California.

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  • [+] 10 points 1 year ago* (20 children)
  • [+] -13 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    comments on lemmy are getting a bit unhinged

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    Situation's getting pretty unhinged.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    True!

    But yeah, calling for people to actually shoot at ice agents?

    Fuck the police and all that but... Theres some wack vibes right there. I dunno.

    I guess that downvote ratio says a lot. 😐

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    Hey, hypothetical hyperbolic crazy situation:

    Hypothetical you is an american. Sorry.

    If iCE were to, under the protective cover of military black hawk helicopters and a major city's police department, with US marines standing guard around the building, take vans of chained up (arms and legs) american children and put them on a plane to death camps where they advertised and bragged about ample local wildlife to dispose of the bodies. Just for being the wrong ethnicity, not that there's any good reason to do that to children.

    Just, for the sake of argument, in a situation like that which could never happen. What would you say should be done?

    Assuming we couldn't get aforementioned bukake-brigades trained, lubed, and 'shooting' on demand. Though the ethics of that strategy might need to be reconsidered, given the absuctees in this purely hypothetical situation would be children.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I don't know. But pulling out your gun and shooting an agent or two is just going to get you swiftly killed, so I wouldn't do that.

    Sorry if this makes me a boot licker or something.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    So, just let them take the kids. Bye-bye little babies, you're gonna die slow while getting raped by guards, then get fed to animals, because thats cheaper than cremation!

    Also by "hypothetical" i mean "last night". ~16 hours ago. I saw what might've been them drive past as i was having dinner. Didnt know thats what i was seeing at the time, just knew it was something bad.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    This is the unhinged part I mentioned

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Do you not believe it's happening?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Do you think that they should shoot ice accents and then die?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don't even know how one would do that if there were a specific ice accent.

    Maybe idk. If the loss of coordination from having their accents shot would save those kids. If it's at least 1:1 on kidnapped children rescued to martyrs?

    What even happens when you shoot an accent? Do bullets make more sense than cum here? Genuine question. Does the accent die and yhey cant talk until they, i dunno, re-learn a new one? Or they have to switch to their racist caricature of an african american? Would that even do more than make them look stupid?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I typed accent instead of agent.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Hey now, nobody in this thread was talking about shooting guns at ice agents.

    I hapoen to know the person upthread is a make-love-not-war type, so I'd interpret that as lining the rooftops with angry horny young men with premature ejaculation problems where an ice raid is expected, and, uh shooting back. In a way that might make them wish for bullets, but, barring truly exceptional volume and some straight up hentai shit, shouldn't endanger their lives.

    If their old german counterparts had faced opposition like that, the holocaust never would have got off the ground.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    He said people need to start shooting ice agents, sorry but lmao, get yourself rehinged.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I suppose you're free to misunderstand them. You could always ask them for clarification.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Very disgusting and brutal to see.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Under what logic does immigration enforcement deal with domestic production of cannabis.

    (I know, 100 miles from any border, port of entry, federal land, Indian reservation, etc but still)

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What time did the raid start? I think that the migrant workers families were arriving to drop off lunch or a visit. That would explain how they got kids in their raid.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    That might have been the case, I cannot say. But I have seen plenty of kids working in the fields along side mommy and daddy hoeing weeds. It's still a fairly common thing.

    I suspect do to the lack of day care, the kids have no where else to be besides along side the rest of the family working.

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