A Southern California community was on edge after protesters and federal agents carried out immigration sweeps at one of the largest cannabis farms in the state, blocking off a road outside the facility and firing projectiles in the crowd.
Reports flooded social media of federal agents arriving at a Glass House Farms facility outside Camarillo, an agricultural region of coastal Southern California, on July 10. Video posted by 805 Immigrant Coalition, a group that tracks U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity, showed men in tactical gear blocking off a roadway.
Federal agents also raided a Glass House Farms greenhouse facility in Carpinteria, California, on July 10, according to the Santa Barbara news site Noozhawk. Protesters there faced off with agents in a similar situation to the one near Camarillo.
At the scene, yellow crime scene tape with U.S. Border Patrol markings stretched across Laguna Road. On one side stood what appeared to be masked and armed federal agents while a crowd of more than 100 people amassed at the other end, taunting the agents and yelling expletives.
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