Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made national headlines over the weekend due to a July 10 large-scale operation at two California cannabis farms. The enforcement action ended with hundreds taken into custody amid reports of ICE agents being fired upon.
In a July 11 statement, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that “Brave agents faced gunfire as they executed criminal search warrants at a marijuana facility.”
A later update from the department added the death of one farm worker and stated that agents rescued at least 14 illegal immigrant children and arrested over 360 illegal immigrants.
Both locations targeted were part of the cannabis operation Glass House Farms, which is a farm that also grows tomatoes and cucumbers….