President Claudia Sheinbaum Friday sharply criticized U.S. military-like raids the day before on a pair of marijuana nurseries in California, and said she would make extra funds available to Mexican consulates in the United States.
“These raids are unjust,” Sheinbaum said during her Friday morning press conference. “But they will also cause severe harm to the U.S. economy.”
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Sheinbaum said that without the labor force of “Mexican [immigrants] and other… Latinos,” farms in California will go unharvested.
As a result of Thursday’s raids — led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents accompanied by National Guard troops in military-style vehicles — Mexican consulates in California received 25 calls asking for help.
This prompted Sheinbaum to increase resources for consulates in the U.S. and to order that bureaucratic procedures be simplified, specifically mentioning the certificate for importation of household goods (trámite de menaje de casa). This certificate — increasingly in demand since the immigration crackdown in the U.S. began in earnest in January — allows Mexicans returning home to import their household belongings free of import taxes.
“We are increasing budgets for our consulates, especially with regard to legal support we provide to our countrymen,” Sheinbaum said, adding that the Finance Ministry will be asked to adjust the budget and provide a report next week.
Additionally, the Foreign Relations Ministry (SRE) activated emergency protocols to attend to Mexican nationals caught up in the California raids. The actions include the publication of emergency consulate protection phone lines.
The SRE also said it is in constant communication with local authorities and is prepared to act in support of any Mexican national in need of legal assistance.
Sheinbaum said that 355 Mexicans have been detained in the California raids to date and, since Jan. 20 (the date Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president), more than 67,000 Mexicans have been deported home by plane.
Thursday’s raids took place at two locations operated by Glass House Farms in two California counties — one in the Santa Barbara County town of Carpinteria, about 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles, and one in the Ventura County community of Camarillo, about 50 miles from Los Angeles.
Glass House Farms, self-styled as one of the “fastest-growing vertically integrated cannabis companies in the U.S.,” said in a social media post that its greenhouse sites “were visited … by ICE officials,” adding that it “fully complied with agent search warrants.”
The news agency Reuters reported that “as word and video images of the raids spread on social media, … migrant-rights activists converged on the area … leading to face-offs with federal agents.”
About 100 farmworkers were detained before the protesters arrived. A local TV station reported that tear gas was fired at the crowds, according to Reuters.
At the Carpinteria farm, U.S. congressman Salud Carbajal, a California Democrat, published a video in which he complained that he was denied access to the scene of the raid.
I went to Casitas Pass Road in Carpinteria today after learning ICE was conducting a militarized raid targeting farm workers. As a Member of Congress, I have the right to conduct oversight, but I was denied entry. Here’s what happened. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/bnrpv6Axot
— Rep. Salud Carbajal (@RepCarbajal) July 10, 2025
He said company officials told him 10 workers were taken into custody at that location, adding in a separate social media post that he “will be demanding answers from the Department of Homeland Security to find out who [was] detained and where the detainees [were] taken.”
The nationalities of the 10 detained workers mentioned by Carbajal have not been made public.
At the farm in Camarillo, Reuters reported that a man fleeing federal agents “appeared to open fire with a handgun in the direction of authorities as they lobbed smoke canisters at protesters.”
Approximately half of all farmworkers in the U.S. are undocumented, but the farm sector insists that mass deportation of agricultural workers would cripple the U.S. food supply chain. Reuters reported that raids on California farms in June left crops unharvested.
With reports from El Universal, UNO TV and Reuters
WAIT AND SEE IF THE CROPS ARE HARVESTED.
I anticipate crops rotting in the fields. SAD.
This was once a great nation though it always (thanks to we being humans) has had some severe problems. We now have MAGA maggot parasitic regime bent on pimping and catapulting bigotry against indigenous and indigenous-mixed persons into a fascist state claiming to somehow be Godly (excuse me while I puke and grit my teeth). As a sidekick of the bigotry power play is human trafficking with migrants being the replacement of slaves (mostly black but also Irish) of years past. The system is designed to protect employers and exploit migrant workers. Unfortunately for the degenerate racists, the trafficking has enabled the migrants to blend into the entire U.S.A. What is needed is an enlightened border-crossing system that not only addresses border security but also addresses workforce needs, in conjunction with a political overthrow of the MAGA cancer and severe punishment for the offenders esp. felon Trump. Until then, the U.S.A. is simply a failed state.
OMG can you at least once have a post where you do not go off the rails? I am all about being constructive and being able to discuss subjects in a calm and rational way, but I don’t think you are capable without name calling and becoming hostile.
yep, getting a little “long in the tooth” that “burn out bobbie” . . . yet then again, perhaps undocumented unaccompanied minors working at a pot farm less than an hour northwest of Los Angeles is right up his wheel house. /s
Bankruptcy Donald will make a mess out of the US and blame it on Biden…then go off with his billions of crypto …..el superscumbago
To think we might have ALSO had an intelligent compassionate womsn for president
Before everything fell apart in the November election I was so excited to see how Claudia and Kamala would work together to the benefit of both countries. Never thought that this would be what we got.
The Republicans cheated to win the election, you know. I hope you’re paying attention to the mounting court case against them for manipulation of vote-counting. This is NOT a conspiracy theory (thank goodness). This whole scenario makes me sick to my stomach on a daily basis. They’re a bunch of Nazis
lol !!!!!
Harris? .. double your dose.
I thought the Oval Orifice hinted that farm workers would NOT be picked up. Did this idea change? After all, Americanos have to eat, but they don’t want to harvest.
No one knows what is going on from one day to the next. Tariffs high, then reduced, then increased. Farm workers, restaurant workers can stay to work, next day they can’t. Trump likes to screw with people’s minds. He loves chaos and uncertainty. When will this end?? I was hoping Kamala would be the next president but good ole Arlin bought Trump the presidency. Now what with him?? It’s a shit show every day.
The farm was in violation of labor laws. Workers had filed law suites.
You think they are rational and give a s**T about the “economy”…it’s NOT their economy. They have castles and bubbles….they will be even more miserable living forever with family and “friends”….
In the 70’s the Win-Win Bracero
Program was terminated and Farm workers were sent back to Mexico and Japan. It was stated by the Secretary of Labor that those jobs
Were for Americans !!!!!
None showed up…I knew farmers
In the Santa Maria area that Had to sell their Lettuce farm….NO Labor !!
Now they are doing it again……
Can’t Fix Stupid !!!
It wasn’t a farm it was a marijuana plantation. Now marijuana they sell in States but it’s still illegal under federal law.
But more importantly what about the 7 to 10 children under 14 years of age that were working there as slaves do you not have compassion for the children of Mexico.
You should try to get your news from other than the alphabet soup in America.
And what about the paid terrorist called protesters that attacked federal agents one police officer not even working for the federal government got shot in the neck and almost killed have you no feelings for other humans.
I shall have to pray for all of your souls.
yep, a pot farm with minors working AND IN California, and within a hour’s drive to Mayor Bass’ Los Angeles Democratic Socialist oasis . . . /s
If you’re Illegal in the US, you will be found and deported. It’s very simple. Nothing unjust about it.
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This is about the millions of illegals that the leftists allowed to pour into the u.s. ILLEGALLY!! It’s not about racism. Mexicans that want to work the farms in America are welcome as long as it’s done LEGALLY. Right now Trump has a huge job to do.. deport all the illegals, and there are millions of them. Once that is done.. if it ever is… there will be a program that permits LEGAL immigration of migrant workers. The word is LEGAL.. LEGAL .. LEGAL.. LEGAL. Get that through your heads.
Pour? Allowed? LOL. The convicted felon and adjudicated rapist has done away with many of the the LEGAL means of people entering the country. TRUTH, Don needs to make them again, based on your ultra-right blindness, “LEGAL…LEGAL…LEGAL…LEGAL. Get that through [your] head.”
Blind Truth
It’s legit hilarious watching you try, Trump-lover. lol
The comments from this article are mostly insightful into our present day political, cultural, and economic environment.
I wish, too that the last election ended differently. Now we have to deal with the conditions brought to bare by the results. This time, the results are impacting aspects on a global scale.
There are good answers for how to course correct, before conditions erode even further. Leaders have to step-up and make a case for the common good of all involved, before we lose our humanity and the ability to ‘do what is right’. Right by all, not a select few.
The new president of Mexico in my opinion is a breath of fresh air. She WOW’d! at the G-7 Summit. I felt like they relished her strength and ambitions for doing things better. She is a coalition builder that can help turn the tide against the wrongs we see happening against people(s) here in the US and around the globe.
It is not too late to HOPE for our better angels to rise up and beat back the proliferation of hate we see coming out of the woodwork now. Change takes time and a catalyst that sparks action and momentum to course correct. Mexico is lucky to have one of those better change agents that is truly capable of building momentum for the greater good. I applaud her for speaking out so intelligently, articulately and intelligently.
In authoritarian states most people don’t ‘analyze’ they just accept what happens, see how it impacts them and if it doesn’t they shrug and move on about their business.
I believe this is how the majority of Americans are behaving at this time, at least the 150MM non-voters. If this hypothesis is correct, the US is rapidly ceding its rule of law to authoritarianism.