ICE Chases Farmworker Off Roof to His Death. Now His Community Is Chasing Out ICE
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 17 July 2025
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Summary
ICE conducted one of the largest raids since Trump took office in Ventura County, California, with agents chasing farmworker Jaime Alanis off a roof to his death and arresting over 360 people. Those arrested included U.S. citizens, moms, and veterans. Now organizers have successfully mobilized a large network of volunteers to fight back against the ICE campaign of terror.
Brian Becker is joined by Lainy Yompian and Ryan Drury of VC Defensa, the network in Ventura County, California that has organized the network and hotline to respond to ICE raids and follow them around town.
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| 0:00.0 | On Thursday, July 10th, in a massive raid, ICE agents and other police agencies attack farm workers in the fields in Ventura County, California, |
| 0:12.0 | resulting in the death of one farm worker, the arrest of many hundreds. |
| 0:17.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. See? Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. Today we're talking with Ryan Drury and Lainey Yumpian of VC Defensive, the organizers in the campaign to support farm workers. Welcome to the show. |
| 1:08.0 | Thank you, Brian. |
| 1:09.0 | Thank you, Brian. Glad to be here. What happened? |
| 1:11.6 | This was a week ago, Thursday. |
| 1:14.6 | We saw the videos all over the place. |
| 1:17.6 | Farm workers working in the fields brutally attacked by ICE agents and other police agencies, maybe the National Guard. |
| 1:24.6 | What happened? |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah, so we received a call that there was a caravan of ice vehicles, multiple ones that we've |
| 1:32.0 | seen before, heading towards Carpentaria first. |
| 1:35.4 | So two farms were actually raided that day, one in Carpenteria, and then the one in Camarillo |
| 1:41.9 | in Ventura County. |
| 1:43.6 | Our volunteers were following the caravan. |
| 1:46.3 | We were not sure what exactly was going to take place. |
| 1:49.5 | And then they kind of went back around into the county. |
| 1:54.1 | At this point, we started alerting people that they were in the county, |
| 1:58.3 | that something was going to happen, and they were stationed, |
| 2:02.1 | they stationed themselves all around the farm. And, you know, came out in full tactical gear. |
| 2:08.4 | We started immediately calling for more, you know, for people to mass mobilize over there and |
| 2:13.3 | support, you know, the people that were trying to escape, one, first of all, and second, to call out their |
| 2:19.3 | presence in our county. |
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