Farm worker who died after California Ice raid was ‘hardworking and innocent’, family says
by Dani Anguiano and agencies from US news | The Guardian on (#6YN0M)
Jaime Alanis, 57, died a day after falling off a greenhouse roof during an immigration raid of a cannabis farm
The farm worker who died from injuries he sustained after falling from a greenhouse roof during an Ice raid of a California cannabis farm was a hard-working, innocent farmer" and the sole provider for his wife and daughter, his family says.
Jaime Alanis died a day after a frenzied immigration raid of Glass House Farms in Ventura county where authorities arrested at least 200 workers. The 57-year-old, who was from the town of Huajumbaro in Michoacan, Mexico, is the first known person to die during the Trump administration's enhanced immigration enforcement operations in southern California.
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