Jaime Alanis, a 57-year-old farmworker, died following injuries sustained during an ICE raid at a California cannabis facility. He fell from a greenhouse roof while trying to escape agents. Alanis was the primary provider for his family, sending money to his wife and daughter in Mexico. Approximately 200 individuals were arrested during the raid, with the DHS clarifying Alanis was not in custody. The United Farm Workers condemned the federal actions as harmful to communities and the food supply chain.
"These violent and cruel federal actions terrorize American communities, disrupt the American food supply chain, threaten lives and separate families," the UFW said recently in a statement on the social platform X.
Agents arrested some 200 people suspected of being in the country illegally and identified at least 10 immigrant children on the sites, DHS said in a statement.
Alanis was not among them, the agency said. "This man was not in and has not been in CBP or ICE custody," DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
Duran posted on the fundraising site GoFundMe that her uncle was his family's only provider and he had been sending his earnings back to a wife and daughter in Mexico.
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