| Part ofDeportation in the second presidency of Donald Trump | |
| Date | July 10, 2025 |
|---|---|
| Location | Oxnard Plain nearCamarillo,Ventura County, California |
| Participants | United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| Deaths | 1 |
| Arrests | 200+ |
The2025 Camarillo, California ICE raid was an immigration enforcement raid by theUnited States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and otherfederal agents on a farm inOxnard Plain, nearCamarillo, California.
DuringDonald Trump'ssecond and current tenure as thepresident of the United States, his administration has pursued adeportation policy generally described by both advocates and detractors as "hardline",[a] "maximalist",[6] and as a "mass deportation" campaign,[3] involving the detention, confinement, and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of immigrants.[3] The Trump administration has claimed that around 140,000 people had been deported as of April 2025, though some estimates put the number at roughly half that amount.[7] On August 28, 2025,CNN reported thatICE alone has deported nearly 200,000 people in seven months since Trump returned to office.[8] By September 23, 2025, the Trump administration claimed that 2 million illegal immigrants had left the country through a combination of over 400,000 deportations and an estimated 1,600,000 self-deportations.[9]
On January 23, 2025,U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began to carry out raids onsanctuary cities, with hundreds of immigrants detained and deported. The Trump administration reversed the policy of the previous administration and gave ICE permission to raid schools, hospitals andplaces of worship.[10][11] The use of deportation flights by the U.S. has created pushback from some foreign governments, particularlythat of Colombia.[12] Fears of ICE raids have negatively impactedagriculture,[10] construction,[13] and the hospitality industry.[14] The total population of illegal immigrants in the United States was estimated at 11 million in 2022, withCalifornia continuing, from ten years prior, to have the largest population.[15][16] ICE agents conducting raids frequently travel in unmarked vehicles, wear plainclothes and facial coverings, and refuse to identify themselves or present warrants. The deportations have been faced with widespread controversy andprotests, such as the one in Los Angeles.[17][18][19]
The administration has used theAlien Enemies Act to quickly deport suspected illegal immigrants with limited or nodue process,[20][21] and to beimprisoned in El Salvador, which was halted by federal judges and theSupreme Court.[22][23] It ordered the re-opening of theGuantanamo Bay detention camp to hold potentially tens of thousands of illegal immigrants,[24][25] but has faced logistical and legal difficulties using it as an immigrant camp.[26] The majority of detentions have been for non-violent matters.[27][28][29] SeveralAmerican citizens were mistakenly and unfairly detained and deported.[30] Administration practices have faced legal issues and controversy with lawyers, judges, and legal scholars.[20]
Trump had discussed deportations duringhis presidential campaign in2016,[31][32] duringhis first presidency (2017–2021), and inhis 2024 presidential campaign.[33][34] At the time of the 2016 lead-up to his first presidential term, approximately one-third of Americans supported deporting all immigrants present in the United States illegally, and at the time of the January 2025 start to his second presidential term, public opinion had shifted, with a majority of Americans in support, according to a January 2025 review.[35] As early as April 2025, multiple polls found that the majority of Americans thought that the deportations went "too far".[36][37][38][39]On July 10, 2025, a raid atgreenhouses on theOxnard Plain nearCamarillo, California, led to over 200 people being detained[40] and one farmworker, Jaime Alanis Garcia, dying after falling roughly 30 feet (9.1 m) while attempting to evade ICE agents.[41][42]
The Trump administration said that children were found at the cannabis farm that was raided by immigration forces.[43] They also claimed that shots were fired at them during the raid.[44] Jonathan Caravello, a professor at nearbyCalifornia State University, Channel Islands, was detained after aiding a protester.[45][46] George Retes, a disabled veteran and US citizen acting as a security guard, was detained.[47]
Protests over hardline immigration tactics ignited across the United States Wednesday after days of demonstrations in Los Angeles, as California prepared for a legal showdown with the White House over Donald Trump's deployment of the military.
At core of US President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy is his use of a 1798 wartime authority allowing presidents to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy country.
The U.S. Supreme Court swept away this week another obstacle to one of President Donald Trump's most aggressively pursued policies - mass deportation - again showing its willingness to back his hardline approach to immigration.
The administration has torn up the rulebook as it seeks to implement a hardline agenda to expel people from the US.
Donald Trump made no secret of his willingness to exert a maximalist approach to enforcing immigration laws and keeping order as he campaigned to return to the White House.
New nonpublic data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind. Also, among those with criminal convictions, they are overwhelmingly not the violent offenses that ICE continuously uses to justify its deportation agenda. ICE has shared this data with people outside the agency, who shared the numbers with the Cato Institute.
It's not a matter of if U.S. citizens are getting caught up in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown and mass-deportation efforts but, rather, how and how many. Some have just been collateral arrests and detentions, in which people are briefly questioned or detained by ICE agents, while others have been jailed for hours or days. Some U.S.-born children have been swiftly deported along with undocumented family members.
55 percent in The New York Times; Marquette, 64 percent; CBS News, 57 percent; ABC News, with a slightly different question, 56 percent... a very clear indication that a majority of Americans… do, in fact, want to deport all immigrants who are here illegally.
Just over half, 52%, say Trump has gone too far in deporting undocumented immigrants, up from 45% in February. A similar 52% now say that Trump's immigration policies have not made the US safer. And most, 57%, say that they do not believe the federal government is being careful in following the law while carrying out deportations.
About half of Americans say Trump has "gone too far" when it comes to deporting immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. About one-third say his approach has been "about right," and about 2 in 10 say he's not gone far enough.
A majority of Americans (54%) describe the actions of ICE in upholding immigration laws as having gone too far.
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