Un ouvrier agricole est mort après avoir été blessé lors d'une descente de la police de l'immigration près de Los Angeles, dans des fermes légales de cannabis où des heurts entre agents et manifestants ont eu lieu, a annoncé un syndicat agricole américain.
«Nous avons le regret de confirmer qu'un travailleur agricole est décédé des suites de blessures subies lors de l'opération de contrôle de l'immigration menée hier», a expliqué sur X l'organisation United Farm Workers.
L'opération a eu lieu jeudi à Carpinteria et Camarillo, deux communes rurales du comté de Ventura, situées à un peu plus d'une heure de route de Los Angeles.
Les agents fédéraux ont « arrêté environ 200 étrangers en situation irrégulière sur les deux sites », et « ont essuyé des coups de feu » de la part d’un tireur « toujours en fuite », a précisé le ministère de la Sécurité intérieure dans un communiqué. « Plus de 500 émeutiers ont tenté de perturber les opérations », a ajouté le Ministère, en expliquant que les agents agissaient avec des « mandats d’arrêt ».
Les images des médias locaux montrent des agents masqués en tenue antiémeute disperser des dizaines de protestataires avec du gaz lacrymogène, et certains manifestants jeter des projectiles sur les voitures de police.
Sur une vidéo captée par la chaîne ABC7, un homme semble brandir un pistolet en direction des forces de l’ordre.
Le FBI « offre désormais une récompense de 50 000 dollars pour toute information permettant l’arrestation de cet émeutier violent », selon le Ministère.
Vendredi soir, Donald Trump a ordonné, sur sa plateforme Truth Social, à tout agent fédéral « qui serait victime de jets de pierres, de briques ou de toute autre forme d’agression, d’arrêter leur voiture et d’arrêter ces RACLURES, en utilisant tous les moyens nécessaires pour y parvenir. »
00:00Our affiliate station, KTLA, had its news chopper up and then the tear gas was deployed and things were obviously tense.
00:08Our live coverage yesterday of that immigration raid throughout the show on the California Cannabis Farm,
00:13it happened in real time on our air, we were watching all of this, the tear gas and what have you,
00:17and officials in California today pushing back some after the raid lasted well into the night.
00:22Governor Gavin Newsom writing on X that kids are running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields.
00:29Trump calls me new scum, he's the real scum. Newsom then sharing footage from the raid.
00:34Department of Homeland Security says it was executing a warrant at the farm.
00:37But right now, just coming in, we have new developments on this story.
00:41News Nation's Nancy Liu joins us live from Camarillo, California.
00:45What are we learning now, Nancy?
00:48Yeah, Connell, we've got a major breaking development with this story.
00:53The United Farm Workers Union confirming in a statement saying a farm worker has died of injuries they sustained as a result of yesterday's immigration enforcement action.
01:07We are gathering more information about that death and, of course, we'll bring you more with Blake Berman and the Hill.
01:14But the raid here at Glass House Farms, it stretched late into the night.
01:19And according to CBP, among those taken into custody, 10 juveniles, the CBP commissioner shared this photo of the group,
01:29adding that eight of the minors are in the U.S. illegally.
01:33And Glass House Farms is now also under investigation for child labor violations.
01:39Among those who evaded capture, Jesus Martinez, who hid inside the facility all night,
01:47emerging this morning to relieve the relatives who thought he'd been detained.
01:52The family says he'll likely never come back here to work.
01:57There was a raid here last month.
01:59Were there workers?
02:00Was he afraid to come?
02:01He wasn't here the first two raids that they did.
02:04Luckily, his boss called them and was like, hey, they're coming.
02:06Don't come.
02:07So we're kind of wondering what happened this time.
02:10Why was it different?
02:10Why did they allow them to enter this time?
02:13They took your mom?
02:15News Nation has learned over 300 people were detained in this massive ICE operation,
02:24which threw hundreds of activists and protesters to this farm northwest of L.A.
02:29A separate raid unfolded at another Glass House facility 35 miles away.
02:34The company bills itself as the largest cannabis growing operation in the world.
02:40As you know, Connell, convoys of immigration enforcement vehicles, they arrived here at the
02:46farm in the morning, taking many workers into custody.
02:50You saw dozens of people lined up.
02:53They were under guard outside the building before they were all taken away.
02:57The clashes between federal officials and protesters, they did get violent at times.
