The harvest assistant who was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries after riots due to an anti-migrant attack in the US state of California. The members of the Mexican have announced this. They now demand “justice” for the death of their “only supplier”.
As reported, the Immigration Authority ICE on Thursday had a raid on a legal cannabis plantation in Ventura County, about 90 kilometers from Los Angeles. There were collisions between ICE officials and protesters who protested against the authority protesting against the hard action of the authority. The Ministry of Homeland Protection said that more than 500 rioters had tried to disrupt the operation. On television photos you can see how some demonstrators threw objects on the cars of the law enforcement officers. These used tear gas against the crowd.
200 people arrested “without papers”
According to the Ministry of the Interior Security, around 200 people were arrested without papers at the deployment and ten children were saved “from possible exploitation, forced labor and human trafficking”. The owner of the Plantage, the Glass House Brands Company, said that “never consciously violated the appropriate recruitment instructions and has no minors employed”.
During the tumult on the plantation, Jaime Garcia Media reports poured out a greenhouse with multiple storey and suffered the life -threatening injuries. The living support measures in the hospital were reportedly terminated on Saturday afternoon (local time) after doctors had not made any good recovery predictions because of the serious brain injury.
“Uncle Jaime was an innocent farmer”
“Uncle Jaime was a hard -working, innocent farmer. His wife and daughter were waiting for him (…) He was the only provider of his family. They took one of our family members. We need justice,” says a statement from the cousin on the online donation platform “Gofundme”, where more than $ 130,000 (about 112,000 euros) could be collected in a few days.
Ministry of Homeland: “Man was not on a search list”
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Homeland Protection said that Garcia was “on any search list” of the Immigration Authority. According to the United Farm Workers Union, there were several seriously injured employees after the raid. In addition, all participants were asked to “remove photos and videos from the use of their mobile phones before they were allowed to go,” a spokeswoman told the New York Times.
Source: Krone
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