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Hospital says California farmworker is alive after 30-foot fall during ICE raid ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and VideosFarmworker hospitalized with critical injuries suffered during Ventura County immigration raid, family says ABC7 Los AngelesBay Area farm workers worried ICE raids in SoCal could be a harbinger KTVU
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During a chaotic raid in Ventura County on Thursday, the worker fell from a greenhouse at a cannabis farm, suffered spinal and skull injuries, and died on Friday.
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Federal agents were met by dozens of protesters Thursday when they descended Glass House Farms in rural Camarillo, Calif., to conduct an immigration enforcement operation.
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Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the worker wasn't being pursued by federal authorities when he climbed onto the roof of a green house and fell.
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Officers fired tear gas at protesters at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, Ventura County, photo and video from the scene showed. They also raided a Carpinteria site.
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"This is not amnesty. It's not amnesty lite," one administration official told Axios. "No one who is illegally here is being given a pathway to citizenship or residency."
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Federal authorities raided Glass House Farms for child labor violations, while records show the farm's president donated thousands to California Democrats, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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