Posted on 07/13/2025 1:47:22 AM PDT by Libloather
Federal authorities have confirmed that more than 300 illegal aliens were arrested Thursday during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at a Ventura County, California cannabis farm.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed on X that 319 unlawful immigrants were apprehended during the raid at Glass House Farms, and said that "law enforcement rescued 14 children from potential forced labor, exploitation, and trafficking."
The raid is believed to be the second-largest single-state ICE worksite operation in history, behind the first Trump administration's 2019 Mississippi chicken plant raids that netted almost 700 illegal alien arrests.
One man taken into custody has a history of violent crime, including attempted child exploitation.
CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott posted a photo of the unnamed migrant on X.
"This illegal alien was apprehended at the CA marijuana facility," he said.
"Turns out he had been sentenced to 7 yrs for kidnapping & attempted rape, w/ a prior conviction for attempted child molestation.
And this felon was working at the same farm as 10 kids - one being 14 yrs old."
Fox News has learned that the children rescued at the farm are from Mexico and Honduras, and that immigration authorities are analyzing the criminal histories of all 319 of the detained illegal aliens.
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The latest CBP data, released in January, reports a total of 179,572 immigrant encounters by U.S. Border Patrol since the start of Fiscal Year 2025 on Oct. 1. But that data includes over four months of encounters under the previous Biden administration.
In January, there were 29,116 immigrant encounters on the Southwest border, CBP reports. The most, 6,397, occurred in the San Diego Sector. The Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector reported the second-most encounters with 5,965, and the El Paso Sector was third with 4,871, CBP reports.
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