Jaime Alanis immigrant farmworker death raid.

People embrace outside of Glass House Farms, a day after an immigration raid on the facility, on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Camarillo, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California farmworker who fell from greenhouse roof during chaotic ICE raid dies

A farmworker who fell from a greenhouse roof during a chaotic ICE raid this week at a California cannabis facility has died. Niece Yesenia Duran says 57-year-old Jaime Alanis died Saturday of his injuries. He is the first person to die in one of the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigration operations. According to family and union sources, Alanis fell about 30 feet and broke his neck as he was being chased by ICE agents. Federal immigration authorities reported arresting some 200 others on suspicion of being in the country illegally in raids Thursday on Glass House Farms facilities in Camarillo and Carpinteria.

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