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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRELEASED!! A friend of my adult child was detained on the farms in Camarillo, California yesterday
He is a professor, a US citizen, a protestor. Along with maybe hundreds of others, he is missing today. One farm worker just died after being chased off of a roof. Support organizations and lawyers have not yet been given their locations. We are in serious trouble.

flamingdem
(40,561 posts)Are they trying to blackout the news about the death?
electric_blue68
(22,450 posts)I hope your kid's friend will be o k. And as many of the others as well. [I know the odds are not good] Rampaging ICE goons!
And to those witnessing that poor worker running off the roof! Geeeeebz. 😞
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oasis
(52,511 posts)
coffeenap
(3,269 posts)NEWS I STATEMENTS
Statement
Condemning the Abduction and
Disappearance of
CFA Members in Camarillo, CA
We strongly condemn the abduction of California Faculty Association professor, member and activist Jonathan A. Caravello, Ph.D. and other community members terrorized and arrested by federal immigration authorities while exercising their constitutional rights to protest peacefully in
Camarillo, CA on Thursday, July 10th
, 2025.
Hekate
(98,597 posts)For all those in fear and captivity tonight
coffeenap
(3,269 posts)...The growing crowd was kept at least a quarter of a mile away from the facility. Protesters said that some people among the crowd had been detained. Jonathan Caravello, a philosophy professor at Cal State Channel Islands, was arrested, according to activist Angelmarie Taylor, who said she was one of his students and had accompanied him to the protest.
Taylor claimed Caravello was arrested as he tried to help a man in a wheelchair when agents were pushing the crowd to move back.
She said he and another individual "were piled on by multiple agents all at once" before being taken behind a line of agents to where several vehicles stood, "and we have no idea now where they are."
FirstLight
(15,517 posts)I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry for all of this I wish there was more that I could do... 😭
And so many people are just going on as if nothing's happening. Living in a tourist town and watching these damn vacation people come up and just party like nothing's going on they don't care. They never cared.
LauraInLA
(2,240 posts)more. Also, we never know another persons circumstances. The family I see smiling at the beach here may be recovering from a death in the family or a serious medical diagnosis. They may even be directly affected by these events and trying to get a moment of normalcy in the midst of suffering. Or they may be working to give their children some semblance of normalcy in the midst of a crisis.
We never know.
FirstLight
(15,517 posts)I was just telling a friend that we're so stuck just trying to LIVE, that we can't fight back...maybe that's by design. and all I can do IS just try and spread love where I am... so thank you for reminding me not to judge
LauraInLA
(2,240 posts)electric_blue68
(22,450 posts)So many people have done so much more
And a wise, and nuanced view from you.
I can be judgy at times. But the worst on myself.
vanlassie
(6,041 posts)And tell them you support them in any way they see fit, and thank them for their efforts. They WANT the calls.
Newsom too.
Hekate
(98,597 posts)By all means contact him about what more you or he can do. Just know I have seen him speak out, and while not everybody can be a firebrand like AOC, as I said, he is solid.
JustAnotherGen
(35,709 posts)Is always a target in oppressive regimes.
OldBaldy1701E
(8,420 posts)Johnny2X2X
(23,089 posts)People saying, remember when ICE was mostly for immigrants? ICE will target all Americans.
Initech
(105,691 posts)May they all rot in hell!
wiggs
(8,305 posts)recklessness, illegality, incompetence, ignorance, disregard for morality and ethics, and profit.
The same agenda is played out throughout govt. Some consequences -- roundups and concentration camps -- are seen immediately, others will take months and years.
But it is a truism that 'everything trump touches dies'. Serious trouble indeed.
progressoid
(51,629 posts)Keep us updated.
WarGamer
(17,561 posts)Video looked ugly...
Ventura County resident here
coffeenap
(3,269 posts)There is video of the vicious takedown as he was assisting a person in a wheelchair. Yes, very, very ugly.
twodogsbarking
(14,494 posts)dlk
(12,792 posts)American is being terrorized by its own.
D. Spaulding
(320 posts)once they deleted any photo or video evidence of the raid on their phones.
Gee, I wonder why they'd make them do that?
Clouds Passing
(5,395 posts)TTFB!
Maggiemayhem
(877 posts)Trying to hide this is atrocious.
Maggiemayhem
(877 posts)Trying to hide this is atrocious.
coffeenap
(3,269 posts)And safely back with people who love him. He is out on bond, facing charges, with an arraignment date in a couple weeks.