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July 10, 2025

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CBP and ICE agents detained U.S. citizen and Army veteran George Retes for 72 hours without charge during Camarillo raid

On July 10, 2025, Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained George Retes, a U.S. citizen and disabled Army veteran working as a security guard, as he arrived for his shift at a federal raid on Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California, breaking his car window, pepper-spraying him, and pulling him from the vehicle before holding him roughly 72 hours across three facilities without charge, an attorney, or contact with his family. The Department of Homeland Security said Retes "became violent" and was arrested for assault, but the government never filed a charge and released him on July 13, 2025. Retes sued the United States and individual federal officers in February 2026.

Federal agents shot legal observer six times with rubber bullets, deployed tear gas during Camarillo cannabis farm raid

On July 10, 2025, federal agents conducting an immigration raid on Glass House Farms, a cannabis facility in Camarillo, California, deployed tear gas and shot Ventura-based attorney Vanessa Valdez six times with rubber bullets despite her identifying herself as a legal observer. Valdez, left unable to see and forced to crawl to escape, has since filed a Federal Tort Claims Act claim seeking compensation for medical costs, lost wages, and emotional trauma. The Department of Homeland Security disputed the account, saying agents used pepper balls rather than rubber bullets, and only after protesters attempted to breach the perimeter.

ICE raid on Glass House Farms drove farmworker Jaime Alanís García to a fatal 30-foot fall

On July 10, 2025, federal immigration agents and National Guard soldiers raided Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California; farmworker Jaime Alanís García climbed onto a greenhouse roof to escape the operation and fell roughly 30 feet, breaking his neck, and died two days later without ever having been taken into custody. The Department of Homeland Security disputed that agents were pursuing him, while his family said his death was "not an isolated tragedy."