ICE escalated again in its recent raids on legal weed farms in Ventura County, California on July 10th. This raid is the first in which about fifty members of the California National Guard 49th Military Police Brigade were actively involved. They followed the ICE convoy and were decked out in riot gear and using batons to actively engage with protestors.
On this raid over two hundred people were detained including many American citizens. A disabled veteran who was working security was detained by ICE and his current status and location is unknown.
George Retes, 25, works as a security guard at Glass House Farms, where the raid took place Thursday. His sister and wife told Eyewitness News that he was trying to leave the area as tensions escalated between federal agents and protesters.
They say they saw AIR7 footage of the scene and were able to see his white vehicle.
"ICE thought he was probably part of the protest, but he wasn't, he was trying to reverse his car," said his sister, Destinee Majana. "They broke his window, they pepper-sprayed him, they grabbed him, threw him on the floor. They detained him."
Jaime Alanis, a farm worker at Glass House Farms fell 30 feet off of a roof while being chased by these masked armed abductors. He broke his neck and died later that night in the hospital.
The scene at the farm on Thursday was chaotic, with federal agents in helmets and face masks using tear gas and smoke canisters on angry protesters, according to photos and videos of the scene.
Several farm workers were injured and one died on Friday from injuries sustained after a 30-foot (9-meter) fall from a building during the raid, said Elizabeth Strater, national vice president of the United Farm Workers.
The worker who died was identified as Jaime Alanis on a verified GoFundMe page created by his family, who said they were raising money to help his family and for his burial in Mexico.
"He was his family's provider. They took one of our family members. We need justice," Alanis' family wrote on the GoFundMe page.
U.S. citizens were detained during the raid and some are still unaccounted for, Strater said.
Extreme escalations by ICE. Don’t let them gaslight you and blame protestors. These communities were entirely peaceful and had zero problems until masked men started abducting their community members. Remember that.
It is ICE and the federal government who have been escalating every step of the way. It is ICE who has been grabbing immigrants with no criminal history. It is the federal government who has deployed 4,100 National Guard and 700 active duty Marines to Los Angeles.
Trump Authorizes ICE to Kill Protestors
Fuck this weak-ass media reporting. “One California Worker Dead.” No, ICE killed that worker. He would not have fallen to his death if masked goons weren’t chasing him with the intent of putting him in a fucking concentration camp.
And Trump here is giving the greenlight for his goon squad to kill protestors. That’s what he’s doing. ICE is going to kill someone soon and then they’re going to blame the victim for throwing a rock or a water bottle. For daring to stand up against their tyrannical bullshit.
The reason that cops don’t stop when things are being thrown at them is that if they stop to get out, it forces escalation. They can just drive away, and stay safe. If they stop to get out and try to arrest people they’re putting themselves in danger and then it escalates and they’ll shoot people. Where the rocks weren’t dangerous before because they’re protected by their vehicles, now, the feds have consciously stepped out from their protection to place their bodies in imminent danger. This gives them the pretense to kill protestors.
This is the equivalent of a cop stepping out onto a road in-front of moving traffic and then mag-dumping the drivers by claiming that they feared for their life from the oncoming traffic.
DOJ Whistleblower Exposes DOJ Flouting Law
These messages corroborate, first at 5:17, the statement on p.7 of Mr. Reuveni’s June 24, 2025 disclosure that, “Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such court order,” and second at 5:24-5:25, the statement on p. 9 that, “Mr. Reuveni reasonably believes Ensign’s statement to the court that he did not know whether AEA removals would take place ‘in the next 24 or 28 hours’ was false.”
That is straight from the evidence given to the Senate. DOJ would tell the courts to “fuck you” and “ignore any such court order.” They lied. DOJ blatantly lied to the courts. There’s 43 pages of that evidence in the Senate document.
The written communications, viewed by The Times and shared with Congress, appear to corroborate Mr. Reuveni’s account. A colleague listening to the hearing texted Mr. Reuveni an expletive, followed by: “That was just not true.” The same colleague added: “He knows there are plans for AEA removals within the next 24 hours.”
Mr. Reuveni replied, “Yes he does.”
The career lawyers trying to navigate the issue often engaged in gallows humor about their situation.
“Guess it’s find out time” on how the courts would respond to the administration, Mr. Reuveni texted a colleague that evening. “Yup, it was good working with you,” the colleague replied ruefully.
Later that evening, Mr. Reuveni sent another text, which referred to Mr. Bove’s expletive from the previous day.
“Guess we are going to say fuck you to the court,” Mr. Reuveni texted. “Super.”
His colleague responded, “Well, Pamela Jo Bondi is,” then added, “not you.”
A few days later, as Mr. Reuveni became more dismayed at the administration’s confrontational posture, he texted a colleague in frustration: “At this point, why don’t we just submit an emoji of a middle finger as our filing.”
https://archive.is/0hmjQ#selection-985.0-1023.225
The DOJ was blatantly lying and creating false evidence in order to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia locked up in the torture prison in CECOT. Absolutely despicable behavior and every single one of them needs to be prosecuted for these blatant crimes.
The trove of documents offers greater detail about the Trump administration’s response to an order to block the flights that has since sparked a contempt inquiry. And it also shows multiple instances of various Trump administration officials pushing to label Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a “leader of MS-13” despite issues finding evidence to back the assertion. At one point an official pledged to “keep looking” for evidence to back the claim.
Shared by a Justice Department whistleblower and released by Senate Judiciary Democrats, the documents show multiple references among DOJ employees to Bove’s expletive-laden directive as well as a series of emails directing agencies in real time to return or ground any flights headed to the Central American nation.
Justice Department attorney-turned-whistleblower Erez Reuveni was fired after he disclosed in a related case that Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to the same prison due to an administrative error.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5394786-trump-administration-migrant-flights-contempt/
ICE Attorney Quits in Protest
In another piece of positive news, an ICE attorney has quit in protest and ICE’s morale is low. Well, fuck em, if you don’t like the job of kidnapping innocents then quit your damn job.
A government attorney resigned over what he called a shift in Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) mission from safeguarding the nation to chasing deportation numbers.
Adam Boyd, a 33-year-old attorney, quit the ICE legal department last month, The Atlantic reported.
"We still need good attorneys at ICE. There are drug traffickers and national-security threats and human-rights violators in our country who need to be dealt with. But we are now focusing on numbers over all else," Boyd told the outlet.
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-employee-quits-had-make-moral-decision-2097370
Trump Loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable.
A “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out and morally conflicted.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/trump-ice-morale-immigration/683477/
That’s all I have. I think we now tread the knife’s edge of violence with this green light that trump has given to his Gestapo goons. They’re going to continue to escalate and it’s going to end up with someone shot, at which point they’ll try to push for martial law in Los Angeles.
People online are very concerned about martial law and seem to think of it as some sort of check-mate game-over scenario. Declaring martial law is only the beginning. The more they push the population, the more push-back they’re going to receive. It requires 20-25 troops per 1,000 population to quell an insurgency according to US Army doctrine. Just as our experience was in Afghanistan and Iraq, you cannot quell a population through military force. The more houses you bomb, the more people you shoot, the more insurgents you create.
This will be the same problem that the regime faces. 500 community members showed up to Camarillo to protect their neighbors. The more this regime pushes, the more the people are going to push back. They can declare Martial Law all they want, but the job of occupying and oppressing the greater Los Angeles area, which has 18.5 million residents. According to the FBI 1 in 7 households in LA own a firearm. So that makes about 2.6 million firearms owners in the greater LA area.
Following insurgency doctrine that would require 925,000 troops to contain. Which is 70% of all of our active duty military forces.
These are scary times but remember we the people hold the power. The regime is being so violent exactly because their position is weak and the only way they maintain power and control is by forcing us to comply with their tyranny because of their fear. Do not let fear overwhelm you. We the people hold the power. We will get past this and we will prosecute every single one of these traitors.
"Tremendous damage was done to these brand new vehicles". This plays straight into the justifiable perception that law enforcement's chief priority is to protect --not people -- but property and profits.
I wonder how much "tremendous damage" was done to how many hundreds of vehicles by the Texas floods? Huh, Donnie?
Thank you Quadzilla - ‘do not let fear overcome you’ the best statement anyone could ever wish to hear in these dystopian times