Farmworker dies two days after a 30-foot fall during an ICE raid on a Camarillo cannabis farm
Mexican farmworker Jaime Alanís García died on 12 July 2025, two days after falling about 30 feet from a greenhouse during a federal immigration raid on the licensed Glass House Farms cannabis farm near Camarillo. DHS said he was neither in custody nor pursued; his family filed a federal claim alleging an illegal search and excessive force, and Mexico weighed its own legal action.
🇺🇸 Glass House Farms, near Camarillo, Ventura County · California, United States
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Jaime Alanís García, a Mexican farmworker supporting a wife and daughter in Mexico, died on Saturday,
12 July 2025 at Ventura County Medical Center, two days after falling about 30 feet (some 9 metres)
from a building at the Glass House Farms cannabis farm near Camarillo during a federal immigration
raid there on Thursday, 10 July. His family said he had been taken to hospital with a broken neck and
skull.[1]
The raid was one of two simultaneous operations at cannabis farms near Camarillo and in Carpinteria;
homeland security secretary Kristi Noem announced 319 arrests across them.[1] The Department of
Homeland Security said García “was not in and has not been in CBP or ICE custody” and, though “not
being pursued by law enforcement”, had climbed to the roof of a greenhouse and fallen, with a medevac
called immediately.[1] The United Farm Workers confirmed workers were critically injured — injuries
not believed life-threatening — and said other workers, including US citizens, remained unaccounted
for; the family said workers “were met not with protection, but with chaos and fear”.[1]
On 7 August 2025 the family’s attorneys filed a federal claim alleging ICE agents carried out an
illegal search and seizure and used excessive force, seeking damages for García’s pre-death suffering
and for his family’s loss; they may sue in federal court if ICE denies or ignores the claim within six
months.[2] President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico was considering a legal complaint over the death.[2]
Sources
- Farmworker critically injured during Ventura County immigration raid dies, family says. ABC7 Los Angeles (KABC), 13 July 2025. Archived copy.
- Family files federal court claim, demanding accountability in farm worker's death after ICE raid. ABC7 Los Angeles (KABC), 7 August 2025. Archived copy.
Open questions the AI reported
- The circumstances of the fall are contested: DHS says García was not pursued and climbed to the roof himself, while his family and the UFW describe workers chased and met with chaos and fear; this report attributes each account to its source.
- No cause-of-death report, inquest or autopsy finding was published in the sources.
- The other critically injured workers the UFW reported are not named, and some workers "remain unaccounted for".
- The report is dated to a July 2025 event, older than the usual twelve months, kept for its notability: a death during enforcement at a licensed cannabis farm that drew a federal claim and a warning of Mexican legal action.