In an image from video, Andrea Castillo yells at a U.S. Border Patrol officer as her husband Jose is detained after he was pepper sprayed at the Florin Road Home Depot in south Sacramento on Thursday, July 17, 2025. Courtesy of Christine Salas

The manager of one farm, Edgar Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen, said he was handcuffed, thrown to the ground and had his arm twisted behind his back after he asked to see a warrant.

Reports flooded social media of federal agents arriving at a Glass House Farms facility outside the city of Camarillo

The Central Valley is home to hotly-contested seats in both the House of Representatives and California Legislature. Some state Republican lawmakers in a letter last month urged the president to direct immigration authorities “to avoid the kinds of sweeping raids that instill fear and disrupt the workplace,” including farms.

“While (Homeland Security Investigations) respects the public’s right to peacefully express disagreement with immigration enforcement, physical assaults on federal officers and interference with lawful operations will not be tolerated,” ICE said a day after the arrests.

VENTURA COUNTY, California ‒ Around 200 people were arrested when federal law enforcement officers executed criminal warrants at a farm near Camarillo and another in Carpinteria, according to a statement released July 11 by the Department of Homeland Security.

The vice mayor of Cudahy is apologizing for a video she posted to social media last month apparently encouraging gang members to organize amid immigration raids in Southern California. This video aired on the KTLA 5 Morning News on July 16,

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended last week’s immigration raid on a California marijuana farm where protesters clashed with federal officers. Authorities arrested about 360 people across two farms owned by the same company.