The New Seditionists
A Federal Raid on a Pot Farm illegally hiring minors gets transformed by a delusional Mob, Media, and Elected Officials into an ICE raid.
Last week federal officers, following up on an investigation that began in May, 2025, raided The Glass House marijuana growing facility in Camarillo, California. Indivisible and other left-wing organizations violently opposed to enforcing immigration laws, keep a vigil on the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters using social media to mobilize adherents like Minutemen to go to any site where an immigration action may be taking place. They characterize all ICE operations as “sweeps” wherein the agents simply go where large numbers of illegal immigrants might be found and pick up anybody with dark skin who can’t immediately prove they are citizens. These “kidnapped” folks are sequestered in closed facilities without contact with their families or with NGO or legal help until they are summarily thrown out of the country or used as alligator sustenance. The gathered mob tries to block federal agents’ entry or exit, using violence as needed such as thrown rocks, bottles, or other objects, and to use themselves as Tiananmen-type barriers to block federal vehicles. In an organized and well-funded travelling circus, they also go before city councils and county supervisors, monopolizing public commentary sessions with impassioned pleas for the officials to deny federal law enforcement activity within the city and/or county. Many undocumented hysterical incidents are voiced, including federal agents not wearing any identification, driving vehicles without license plates, failing to identify themselves, conducting drive-by kidnapping of dark skinned persons off the streets, and according to one recent testifier I witnessed, murdering people. They complain that unknown persons are pretending to be ICE officers to assault and kidnap innocents, and hold federal officers responsible in some kind of bizarre guilt by association.
As has been documented repeatedly by the federal government, all ICE operations have been conducted under warrants looking for specific known criminal actors who are also illegal immigrants. When others, innocent of the specific warranted allegations are present and found to be illegally in the country, they are taken into custody as well, even if not aiding and abetting the criminal sought. Those who resist ICE officers conducting lawful detentions are taken into custody for obstructing justice. One major problem exists with the insurrectionists in this Camarillo incident—these were not ICE agents on an immigration raid.
As clearly stated in a video (beware violent profanity) recorded by a person at the Glass House, the federal officers raiding the facility were not ICE. They were federal agents acting on a targeted judicial warrant to investigate child trafficking and illegal labor operations. Steve Frank, in the above linked article, is quoted:
“Graham Farrar is the owner of Glass House Farms in Camarillo. Last week ICE raided his legal marijuana farm and captured over 200 illegal aliens working for him—plus at least 10 under age, unaccompanied minors—used for illegal child labor. Then we find out this human rights abuser was a major donor to Gavin Newsom, the Santa Barbara Democrat Party, Democrat Congressman Salud Carbajal—who wanted open borders, no immigration enforcement and SUPPORTS abusive child labor. Corruption is massive.”
“Instead of standing with law enforcement or the victims, local Democrat leaders rushed to defend the farm and their child labor exploitation, before knowing the facts. Glass House Farms leadership has been active in campaign donations locally:
Congressman Salud Carbajal: $9,850 from Glass House Farms president Graham Farrar.
Assemblyman Gregg Hart: $1,000.
Governor Gavin Newsom: $10,000.
Santa Barbara Democratic Party & ActBlue: Received tens of thousands more.”
The Los Angeles Times provides some of the sordid history of the Glass House.
“Officials with the state Department of Cannabis Control said they have launched “an active investigation” after receiving a complaint that Glass House, one of the state’s largest legal cannabis companies, had employed minors….The employment of individuals under the age of 21 in the cannabis industry is strictly illegal, a serious matter, and is not tolerated,”. That state department had opened the investigation in May, 2025 after receiving tips. The federal agents, not ICE, were acting on similar information:
“Among those arrested, according to the Department of Homeland Security, were “violent and dangerous criminal illegal aliens convicted of rape, child molestation and kidnapping.” The department released the names of 10 people who had been charged with crimes such as indecent exposure, felony possession of a firearm and possession with intent to sell narcotics.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stated:
“We went there because we knew, specifically from casework we had built for weeks and weeks and weeks, that there was children there that could be trafficked, being exploited, that there was individuals there involved in criminal activity,” Noem told reporters during a weekend appearance in Florida.”
Additional allegations from Fox News suggest that this facility was tied to a transnational criminal organization involved with human smuggling, as reported by Justin Shores. Shores also notes:
“A 2023 lawsuit by Long Beach-based Catalyst Cannabis Co. accuses Glass House Farms of funneling legally grown cannabis to illicit markets nationwide, undercutting legal businesses and fueling a black market.”
The LA Times story goes on to note that The Glass House, largest cannabis grower in the state, and their labor contractor, are both involved in civil cases of labor violations in Ventura and Los Angeles counties. Shores echoes this with more specific information:'
“Another class-action lawsuit from 2024 alleges labor abuses at Glass House, including unpaid overtime, grueling quotas and skipped breaks — conditions that hit vulnerable workers hardest.”
Clearly, this was not an arbitrary immigration raid by ICE. It was a targeted criminal raid by federal agents serving a warrant and acting against a potentially dangerous group of individuals. By recent reports 361 individuals were taken into custody, including 14 minors, 10 of whom were unaccompanied illegal immigrants possibly the victims of this criminal human smuggling and trafficking organization. Sadly, one person died as a result of trying to escape by leaping from a third story window in an escape attempt.
Having rounded up the arrestees, the federal agents then faced a similar risk of death in trying to leave. The mob had gathered and blocked their vehicles with bikes and bodies. Ultimately non-lethal munitions were used to disperse the crowd and allow the officers to leave. However their exit ran a gauntlet of mob members assaulting them with rocks, endangering their lives. One was caught on film apparently shooting several times at the officers. All this has been encouraged and incited by many of our elected officials locally and nationally.
Worst amongst those inciters of insurrection and mob rule may be Salud Carbajal, local U.S. Congressman. He arrived while the officers were conducting the raid, and insisted that, as a member of Congress, he be admitted to the raid for the sake of “oversight”. He was appropriately denied. I have asked him by email to quote the federal law that empowers him as an individual Congressman to embed in a federal law enforcement action on his sole authority without prior arrangement. I also asked him if he had done such with the Drug Enforcement Agency or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, who also conduct raids under dangerous conditions. Carbajal then obtained the business card of one of the federal law enforcement agents and displayed it prominently to multiple members of the mob so they could film it, perhaps to take further action against that agent and/or his family in the future. That particular agent was indeed injured by a rock-thrower. Besides large groups of organized left-wing radicals seeking to obstruct justice and assault law enforcement officers, what else does this mean?
Our elected officials are becoming seditionists. Responding to a well-organized group of the far left who feel laws inconvenient to their beliefs should be disobeyed by our local governments, Ventura County’s city councils have passed or are considering resolutions condemning federal law enforcement and forbidding their legal actions to enforce criminal laws amongst illegal immigrants. Note that California state law already forbids cooperation by any local or state law enforcement agency conducting immigration actions. However this refusal to cooperate is not absolute. Officers are required to come to the aide of other officers under attack. Local law enforcement organizations can cooperate with federal agents in issues involving actual criminal actions beyond illegal violation of our borders. By word and deed these elected officials are endorsing, aiding, and abetting illegal obstruction by organized and riotous mobs of law enforcement under court-approved judicial warrants regarding criminals who happen to be illegal immigrants. When these mobs commit assault and battery with potential deadly force via rocks, etc., and attempt murder of federal officers as happened this week in Camarillo, those elected officials become complicit in these criminal acts.
To Summarize:
The Camarillo incident was conducted under a valid search warrant at a marijuana growing facility, not a “farm”. The grower knowingly hired illegal immigrants, and knowingly used minors, both violations of state and federal law. The minors used to grow the drug, marijuana, cannot legally possess or obtain it. Ten to fourteen were found to be “unaccompanied” illegal immigrants, thus possibly among the 350,000 minors lost by the prior administration and trafficked for child labor and other uses. Besides attacking officers with potentially deadly weapons, one amongst the mob was filmed firing a gun at the officers—that is attempted murder. One officer in particular was targeted by a U.S. Congressman, Salud Carbajal, for possible future violence. Many of the organized mob brought young children to the event, perhaps with the deliberate intent of using them as human shields.
The last time local and state officials—Democrats—attempted to nullify law to sustain slavery (or indentured servitude of illegal immigrants), our nation sank into Civil War. In the crisis of 1832, Andrew Jackson responded forcefully to South Carolina’s attempt to nullify federal law (dealing with tariffs, as it so happened), and thereby delayed that Civil War for another three decades.
He wrote:
“…the strange position that any one state may not only declare an act of Congress void but prohibit its execution; that they may do this consistently with the Constitution; that the true construction of that instrument permits a state to retain its place in the Union and yet be bound by no other of its laws than those it may choose to consider as constitutional…to give the right of resisting laws of that description, coupled with the uncontrolled right to decide what laws deserve that character, is to give the power of resisting all laws.”
Our City Councils, County Board of Supervisors, state legislature, and U.S. Congressmen are rapidly drifting that way. Certainly, punish law enforcement if they violate procedures. Do not affirm those who use violence, obstruction, and other violations of law to oppose the law.