A Mexican father employed in the United States is battling for his life after a tragic fall from a building during an intense ICE operation in Southern California.
Jaime Alanís was working at Glass House Farms in Camarillo when ICE raided it on Thursday and several migrants took off running.
While trying to escape after agents who showed up armed, he fell 30 feet off a building and broke his neck and skull, a family member told ABC 7.
He was taken to the hospital and was on life support on Friday.
United Farm Workers, reported that Garcia had died but a statement from the hospital said he was in critical condition.
Alanís was working at the cannabis farm in Ventura County to send money home to his wife and daughter in Mexico.
‘My uncle Jaime was just a hard-working, innocent farmer,’ his niece Yesenia Duran wrote in a GoFundMe. ‘He was his family’s provider.
‘My uncle is critically injured; doctors have indicated he might not survive. The extent of his injuries is devastating. While his heart continues to beat, it is ultimately in God’s hands,’ said a relative.
The family said he would be buried in Mexico if he didn’t make it.
Jaime Alanís was on duty at Glass House Farms in Ventura County when the ICE agents executed a raid, causing several migrant workers to flee in panic. Amidst the chaos and as armed agents approached, Alanís attempted to escape but fell 30 feet from a building, resulting in severe neck and skull fractures.
Alanís was taken to the hospital and was on life support before he succumbed to his injuries on Friday
The fundraiser had garnered more than $20,000 in the first four hours of going live. As of Friday evening, it has raised more than $37,000.
Daily Mail has reached out to the family and Glass House Farms for comment.
Members of the National Guard were deployed to the farm on Thursday along with federal law enforcement agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
It was part of the broad federal crackdown on undocumented workers in Southern California that quickly spiraled.
After ICE agents fired smoke canisters into a crowd of demonstrators near Laguna Road, an individual could be clearly seen raising a firearm and appeared to discharge it in the agents’ direction.
There is now a $50,000 reward being offered by the FBI to capture that man.
Agents blocked off roads and stormed the facility in what witnesses described as a sudden and aggressive operation.
Video and photos from the scene showed ICE agents clashing with a crowd of more than 100 people – many of them farmworkers or their family members – who had initially formed a human blockade along the road.
As crowds continued to grow, agents began throwing smoke canisters and tear gas. This sent most people running in the opposite direction, though some were compelled to throw rocks at ICE officers.
It was a scene of absolute chaos, with protesters, farmworkers, and family members scattering throughout the fields.
The chaotic raid took place at Glass House Farms in Camarillo Thursday
Several federal immigration agents were seen clashing with protesters during the raid
The Ventura County Fire Department was on the scene to provide treatment to people who were affected by tear gas or smoke inhalation.
‘The Ventura County Fire Department was dispatched at approximately 12:15 pm on Thursday, July 10th to provide medical aid as a result of federal enforcement activity along Laguna Road in the Oxnard Plains,’ the department said in a statement.
‘VCFD was requested through our county’s 911 system solely to provide medical aid and has no connection with any federal immigration enforcement actions.’
At least three people were taken to the hospital while about 200 others were detained.
CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott also revealed that 10 illegal juveniles were found working at the cannabis farm, which he said is now being investigated for child labor violations.
He then shared a photo of the kids they discovered, who were all sitting in front of five federal agents.
The farm’s sprawling cannabis operation, one of the largest in the state, was quickly sealed off with yellow crime scene tape marked ‘U.S. Border Patrol.’
