This included a lecturer at CSU Channel Islands, who subsequently faced nearly 20 years in prison<\/a> for allegedly throwing a tear gas canister back at a Border Patrol agent.<\/p>\n George Retes \u2014 a father, U.S. citizen and veteran who worked as a security guard at one of the facilities \u2014 was also detained and held incommunicado for days<\/a>, before getting released without charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jaime Alan\u00eds Garc\u00eda, a father and farmworker, died from injuries he sustained<\/a> after falling from a greenhouse roof. On Saturday, marchers carried posters with the deceased man\u2019s image that read \u201cREST IN POWER.\u201d Several others carried signs that read \u201cABOLISH ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n Multiple marchers told LAist they went to the facility in Carpinteria in solidarity with family members who raced to the area when they heard about the raids last summer.<\/p>\n Mitch Lillie, a member of grassroots organization VC Defensa, said the day is seared into his memory. More than anything, he recalls the sound of community members frantically trying to reach their loved ones on the phone. \u201cThey were just bawling,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Some marchers danced in prayer as they made their way through the city.<\/p>\n From the beach to the field\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The marchers first gathered at Carpinteria State Beach, just steps away from the Pacific Ocean. Then, under the scorching summer sun, they headed toward Glass House Farms, one of the cannabis facilities targeted by the federal government.<\/p>\n One man shouted \u201cViva Trump!\u201d from inside his car as the marchers crossed a residential street. Elsewhere, dozens of drivers jovially honked at the marchers in support.<\/p>\n Along the way, the marchers made brief stops at shopping plazas. At each site, Bianca Perez used a staple gun to affix signs on trees and utility poles. She\u2019d decorated each sign with faux monarch butterflies \u2013 a symbol honoring multi-generational migration across North America. At each of those sites, she explained, federal immigration agents have detained other community members, including on this year\u2019s Father\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n Perez is part of grassroots organization Carpinteria Sin Fronteras. Like VC Defensa, the group sends out alerts about the presence of federal immigration agents in the area. Perez and other volunteers also help community members locate loved ones when they fail to come home.<\/p>\n \u201cWe hold their stories super close to our hearts, with a lot of respect and love,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is hard not to take all that in . . . A lot of the time, we are the first call when one of their family members has been taken.\u201d<\/p>\n Bianca Perez posted signs in places where community members have been detained.<\/p>\n The day that changed everything<\/p>\n Outside of Glass House Farms, local leaders and U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal made short speeches before a sun-worn crowd. Many recalled where they were when they first heard about the raids on July 10, 2025.<\/p>\n Teresa Alvarez, executive director of the Carpinteria Children’s Project, was giving a tour of the nonprofit\u2019s facilities when the news came down. Without vacillating, she and her team ran out the door, she said. But when they got to the field and saw rows of armed federal immigration agents, fear almost overtook her.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew I needed to be here. But as a mom and an immigrant myself, I was terrified \u2014 especially when I realized I had no cell service and wasn’t sure what would happen if things happened to escalate,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Alvarez and the other speakers underscored that although the federal government has not carried out large-scale raids in recent months, community members should not dial down on their advocacy.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople are dying at detention centers<\/a> and on the street on their way to work,\u201d she added, reminding marchers about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a builder who was fatally shot by an ICE agent<\/a> in Houston, Texas earlier this month.<\/p>\n \u201cThat could have been my dad,\u201d she said. \u201cThat could have been your dad.\u201d<\/p>\n Mitch Lillie speaks to community members outside of Glass House Farms in Carpinteria.<\/p>\n VC Defensa\u2019s Lillie said that, although July 10 is now a \u201cday of mourning,\u201d it\u2019s also a day of resistance. He recalled tear gas and pepper bullets raining down on him and fellow protesters. He also remembered perfect strangers helping each other.<\/p>\n On Saturday, he encouraged the marchers to join a grassroots organization of their choice and help their immigrant neighbors any way they can \u2014 whether it\u2019s by giving them a ride to a court appointment or by helping those who\u2019ve lost their breadwinners pay rent.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is how we transform a tragedy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people in the city of Carpinteria joined a miles-long march Saturday against the Trump administration’s mass…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-398239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"People](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784055753_445_.jpeg\")
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