Sustaining fatal injuries that occurred while fleeing from ICE, Jaime Alanis, a Camarillo, CA farmworker, was killed this past weekend at a raid at a central CA cannabis farm. His is at least the 13th ICE-related death in 2025, and the first known one to happen as a result of the raids that have been going on in southern California since ICE and the National Guard began their military occupation of Los Angeles.

While we probably have to wait for the dust to settle more to get the full story on the Camarillo and Carpenteria raids, we do know that these operations caused fear, chaos and death. We know that Jaime Alanis was attempting to hide from immigration agents before he decided to flee. And we know that he fell 30 feet off of a greenhouse roof not long after calling his wife in Mexico to tell her ICE agents were at the farm.

We mourn the death of Jaime Alanis and the thirteen other people who have died in ICE custody in 2025. We will never stop dreaming of justice and possibility and a better future for every immigrant on Turtle Island.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)