Glass House Farms Immigration Raid

On July 10, 2025, federal agents raided Glass House Farms, a licensed cannabis facility in Camarillo, California, and an associated site in Carpinteria, arresting more than 300 people in a single day. The raid is recorded here not as one event but as a cluster of separate harms to separate people: agents shot Ventura attorney Vanessa Valdez six times with less-lethal rounds and deployed tear gas while she was present as a legal observer; they shattered the car window of George Retes, a U.S. citizen and disabled Army veteran arriving for his shift as a security guard, pepper-sprayed him, knelt on his neck and back, and held him seventy-two hours across three facilities without charge, counsel, or contact with his family; and farmworker Jaime Alanís Garcia fell thirty feet from a greenhouse roof during the operation and died two days later. The Department of Homeland Security publicly disputed the account of each, and no charges were filed against Retes. This episode collects those entries and should absorb the compensation claims, civil-rights suits, and oversight findings arising from the raid as they arrive.