Hundreds of community members marched through Carpinteria on Saturday to protest recent immigration enforcement operations targeting local marijuana farms. The event, dubbed the “ICE Out of Carp!” protest, brought together families, activists, and concerned residents who voiced their outrage at the raids conducted earlier this week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies.
The demonstration was sparked by Thursday’s high-profile raid at Glass House Farms facilities in Carpinteria and Camarillo. Federal agents arrested 200 individuals as part of what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) described as an investigation into immigration violations along with allegations of child labor exploitation. Protesters, however, questioned DHS’ claims and criticized the actions as oppressive, claiming the raids disrupted the community and unfairly targeted immigrant workers.
A Peaceful Yet Passionate Protest
Chanting “ICE out of Carp! ICE out of Carp!” as they marched through the streets of Linden Avenue and Carpinteria Avenue, demonstrators carried colorful signs with messages such as “No More Fear” and “Protect Our Workers.” The march was peaceful, yet the tone was one of deep frustration and determination.
“We came because we are furious that our government is sending masked police, with military weapons, to terrorize and disappear our Latino friends and neighbors, our teachers, food pickers, gardeners, health caregivers, and child caregivers,” said Marian Shapiro, a protester and local photojournalist. “These hardworking, tax-paying individuals are vital to our economy. They don’t deserve to be arrested, deported, or put in horrendous concentration camps without due process when they are not criminals. This is not what our country was founded on. It’s not who we are.”
Fallout from the Raids
The protests come in the wake of mounting public debate over federal immigration enforcement. DHS officials have defended Thursday’s raids, claiming they were necessary to address allegations of child labor violations and other criminal activity. Glass House Farms, however, has strongly denied these allegations. The company, which holds legal cannabis cultivation licenses in California, insists that it cooperated fully with federal authorities.
The controversy has drawn criticism even at the highest levels of state leadership. California Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the raids as emblematic of a broader strategy of “chaos, fear, and terror.” The enforcement actions are part of a larger surge in immigration operations under the Trump administration, particularly in Southern California.
A Call for Change
Saturday’s protest is just the latest in a series of statewide actions organized by immigrant advocacy groups calling for an end to aggressive immigration enforcement. Organizers emphasized the need for reform that protects immigrant workers and their families.
A similar protest took place in Oxnard on Friday to protest the raid that took place in Camarillo. Hundreds of protestors took to the streets waving American and Mexican flags demanding that ICE stops terrorizing their communities.
As voices rise across Carpinteria and beyond, the community’s message is clear: local residents will not remain silent in the face of actions they believe erode the foundations of justice and compassion.
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Jewish person here. Ancestors exterminated in Sobibor Camp. The tactics are the same. Trump characterizes undocumented immigrants, in his words, as “violent thugs” and “escaped mental patients” when that is obviously not true, as the data shows that undocumented folks commit crimes at a lower rate than citizens. He characterizes them that way so it becomes easier to treat them inhumanely, separating them from their children and putting them in places like Alligator Alcatraz. Jews were also characterized in similar ways, as parasitic to society, in order to justify their treatment by the Nazis. So while there are not death camps, the demonization tactics are very similar.
No death camps…YET.
You can bet the plans are percolating.
Come on they have to have something to run on for reelection at least to one percent chance
Was that supposed to make sense?
Bravo!
Resist the fascists!
Do you actually try to make your comments appear as ludicrously ignorant as possible, or is this an effortless innate talent of yours?
JC takes his initials much too seriously.
JAMES appears to be from Sacramento, so the meth-addled racist and cruelness is not surprising.
STONER – “They are criminals, no matter how minimal the offense”
Hey Einstein, did you know that not all immigration offenses are crimes? Betcha didn’t, not with that big ol’ brain of yours. Overstaying a visa is a civil offense. That word means not criminal. Also, how about those hundreds of thousands of people of many nationalities (all from non-white countries) who just had their protections against deportation ripped away from them? They’re not criminals, they were here legally. You hate them too? Even the Afghans who helped us fight the Taliban who are now being sent home to have their children killed by them?
Now, when are you going to go demand the hundreds of thousands of white illegal immigrants (from Ireland, Russia, etc) living in Boston, Philly, etc, get rounded up by masked thugs and ripped from families too? Oh wait, those kind are ok, right?
Funny coming from a guy (or little girl, who knows) calling itself “Stoner.” So tell us, wannabe, did you only start smoking weed once it was legal? Of course not, you dunderheaded criminal. Even funnier coming from someone who voted for a criminal to run our country. A man who has admitted to sexual assault as well. Those crimes are ok thought, right? How about beating up police officers? You love it when the criminals white, right?
You’re clearly not very bright. Maybe fix that before you start crying about “criminals.” Racist moron.
Wait, so waving a flag is now punishable by death? Huh.
What about the 14 kids?
That’s not important
It is important. We also want evidence, receipts, and timelines before we blindly believe what they say.
ANON – what about the adults under 21 but over 18? Has anyone proven they were working there at those farms? There are multiple farms in the area, not all are cannabis.
Why do you instantly believe everything ICE says? You gotta get the boots out of your mouth for a minute.
Uh-huh, so you believe the government. What about proof.
Where is the evidence that there was child labor? If they are so worried about kids, why are they deporting single moms and leaving these kids alone? EVERYONE is against child labor (except for Florida and Alabama and a few other red states) but everyone else is against it, so prove that this company was doing that and we can all come together and protest the company. But without proof, I’m not going to blindly follow what angry men on twitter say.
How many? I’ve seen 10, 8, 19, 14…. How many “kids” were there?
Know why no one knows? Because you all rely on a racist and then memes and comments by other racists for “facts.”
This is the ONLY FACT: The DHS has allegedly taken a number of people it is calling “minors,” yet they have provided ZERO evidence that they were working at the farms (as opposed to being protesters) or that they were even minors.
This is the problem with America. Uneducated bigots rush to accept anything a proven liar and racist says as hard fact, but refuse to accept science, objective facts, clear audio/visual evidence to the contrary or to even question the source. They gobble up lies like mindless pigs at a trough.
Get smarter, America!
Should we worry about teenagers who babysit, wash cars, and earn some spending money being a summertime handiman?
Another sucker in thrall of the con misinformation machine, suddenly worried about “kids”.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us
Wow these protests look like lots of fun! You know what’s not fun? 70,000 American fentanyl deaths a year, brought to you by US Citizens, their Mexican dealers, and Chinese factories. Let’s go protest and we can all feel better about ourselves while we ignore the war that is already in our midst, and has been for years.
You are not a serious person.
Your opinion schifts with the orange moron’s winds.