Details emerge about pot-farm immigration raid as worker dies

Details emerge about pot-farm immigration raid as worker dies

By Dakota Smith

, Christopher Goffard and Jeanette Marantos

Published July 12, 2025 Updated July 13, 2025 4:20 PM PT

• A worker who fell from a greenhouse roof during a federal immigration raid has died, his family says.

Trump administration officials defended the aggressive campaign to find and deport unauthorized immigrants even as a cannabis farmworker was taken off life support two days after he plunged from a roof amid the mayhem of a Ventura County raid.

The death of Jaime Alanís Garcia, 57, announced Saturday by his family, comes amid a climate of increasing tension marked by weeks of militaristic raids, street protests and violent melees involving federal agents.

Alanís’ family said he was fleeing immigration agents at the Glass House Farms cannabis operation in Camarillo on Thursday when he climbed atop a greenhouse and accidentally fell 30 feet, suffering catastrophic injury.

But the Department of Homeland Security said that Alanís was not among those being pursued and that federal agents called in a medevac for him. Federal authorities said afterward that they detained 361 purported unlawful immigrants in the crackdowns at the site in Camarillo and another cannabis grow operation in Carpinteria owned by the same company, as well as protesters who allegedly sought to shut down the raid.

Four U.S. citizens were arrested on suspicion of assaulting or resisting officers, according to the DHS.