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.
03:02Officers deployed tear gas, flashbangs, non-lethal rounds.
03:07One protester appeared to open fire at federal agents with a handgun.
03:11And the FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for that person's capture and conviction.
03:18And federal authorities arrested multiple people for impeding operations.
03:24And Connell, as you know, those are federal offenses.
03:27Absolutely.
03:28And now the death of this worker, to your point, is a major development in this story as well.
03:33Any indications today that these raids on farms are continuing?
03:38Are they still happening?
03:39Do we know?
03:41Yeah, we're seeing no signs of ICE or CBP out here today.
03:46But we know that raids, all kinds of them, they've been going on daily throughout Southern California.
03:52Here at Glasshouse Farms, behind me, you might see some of the relatives of the workers.
03:58They've been showing up all day today.
04:01And they're wondering if their loved one might also be in hiding inside.
04:07One woman telling me that she has not been able to locate her brother in the federal detention system.
04:14That's also the case with a lot of these loved ones out here.
04:17And, Connell, the hope is that that person is hiding inside and not in federal custody.
04:24All right, Nancy.
04:25Nancy Liu, Life Force Ventura County.
04:27More on that worker as we get information coming.
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