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00:02 Report by Ines Pohl
00:28 Ines Pohl | DW Washington Bureau Chief
01:32 July 10, 2025
03:11 Luis A. McArthur | Mayor of Oxnard

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00:00:00:08
Usually, these fields in Oxnard, California, are filled with hundreds of farm workers. Most of them are undocumented migrants. Now, many are hiding at home, afraid of being arrested and detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly known as ICE agents. It's been particularly quiet after one migrant died during a raid at a farm close by.

 00:00:26:13
+++ Ines Pohl, DW reporter 
So it's nearly impossible to get any of the workers here talking to us. And if so, we can only film them from the back. Because, of course, they're afraid that someone might recognize them. You see women here working behind me on the irrigation systems, on the strawberry fields here in this area. Growing strawberries is really huge. We talked to one of the supervisors, and he told us that basically, no American is willing to do this hard labor in the heat, and that they rely heavily on undocumented migrants to do this work. +++
 
00:01:03:03
Finally, a worker talks to us.

00:01:06:04
+++ Farm Worker: 
*(QUOTES FROM HIM IN SPANISH)*
They’re grabbing everyone like criminals, and we're not criminals, we're not criminals, we're workers, hardworking people, 
I wish all this would calm down. Let's see if all this can be normalized, because many people do not go to work out of fear.
Look all around, these are all hardworking people, right? +++
 
00:01:30:22
On July 10th, at this legal cannabis farm, Jaime Alanís Garcia died during an ICE raid. The standoff lasted for more than 13 hours, and 200 workers were arrested. 
The community has developed a system to share information when raids are underway so they can show up in support. 
Julia is part of this group; it’s her footage you are seeing.
 
00:01:56:13
+++ Julia Mal-Atch, local protester
It was like an urgent call to come over here. They were attacking us with this tear gas, this tear gas, and rubber bullets and eventually pepper bullets, which is illegal.
So these are the tear gas bombs that they were throwing at us. This I was personally hit with.”

Ines Pohl, DW reporter: +++ With this one?+++
+++ Julia Mal-Atch, local protester
 +++ Correct.+++ 
Ines Pohl, DW reporter: +++ Who threw that at you?”+++

+++ Julia Al-Atch, local protester
 +++ These were the ICE agents. We had no weapons. All we had was people, power, and our voices. +++
 
00:02:25:09
July 10th, 2025, is a day that will forever mark a dark chapter in Oxnard's history. 
 The community is in shock. Mayor Luis A. McArthur asks for a moment of silence before the people of Oxnard address their concerns.

00:02:41:13
Vox1 
+++ And no, we're not looking for moments of silence, but action.+++
Vox 2
+++ I feel like our community is under attack by the federal government.+++
Vox 3
+++ The danger is already here.+++
Vox 4
+++ And if we continue to sit back and say it's because of the person in the white House that we're not doing it. Pardon me for this language, but then we are cowards.is based in respect.+++

00:03:00:11 
Afterwards, we meet with Mayor McArthur in his office.  
I want to understand what sway local authorities have against federal agents.

00:03:08:23
+++ Luis A. McArthur, Mayor of the City of Oxnard:  
Because they are federal agents, they have the right to go into any city they want and enforce immigration laws. Police can't enter, intervene, or stop them from doing their job.
 As a mayor, we can't stop them from doing just that. But it’s difficult, because it's like a David and Goliath situation here where they just approve, I think, $170 billion to continue these operations, and how do you fight with that?
 
00:03:38:20
The impact of ICE’s presence is already visible. Fruit that should be picked is rotting on the ground, and empty boxes are stacked on the side of the street. Local producers warn that ICE raids and detentions could affect the food supply chain and drive up costs for consumers worldwide.