Above photo: Agents tackle a civilian protesting an ICE raid at a farm near Camarillo, CA.
Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents threw canisters of tear gas at them and their fellow protestors, with, according to witnesses, “one canister landing under the wheelchair.”
CSU Channel Islands professor Jonathan Anthony Caravello was arrested & disappeared by ICE in Camarillo yesterday. 4 pigs dragged Jonathan away without giving the reason for arrest and without disclosing where they are taking him. His whereabouts are still unknown. Please boost. https://t.co/UvsHmXnGS0 pic.twitter.com/7Rp41yybBc
— People’s City Council – Los Angeles (@PplsCityCouncil) July 12, 2025
ICE, with the help of National Guard members, was conducting a raid at Glass House Farms this past Thursday. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) learned of the raids, spread the word, and protestors and others arrived on the scene. “Federal agents had already closed off access to the worksite…. [One witness] said activists were trying to prevent trucks full of detainees from leaving.”
Federal immigration agents joined by National Guard soldiers carried out two brutal immigration raids in Carpinteria and Camarillo, California, which left at least one worker dead and several others hospitalized…as many as 200 people have been taken by the immigration Gestapo. pic.twitter.com/7o6pi2BkkZ
— Jacob Crosse | @crossebarx.bsky.social (@CrosseBarx) July 12, 2025
CSU Channel Islands and Glass House Farms are both located in the Camarillo area, and reportedly several members of the CSU Channel Islands community were in attendance at the protests.
Tear gas and “less lethal ammunition” were fired at the protestors and “at least one person was held at gunpoint after they tried to take out their phone and record the raid,” according to reports, and “multiple ambulances” went in and out of the farm.
After being tackled by agents, Dr. Caravello and others were arrested. According to a statement from the California Faculty Association (CFA), there are “unconfirmed reports” that Caravello is being kept at Ventura Federal Detention Center.
The statement from the CFA denounces the arrest of Caravello and others:
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.
These abductions are an attack on our constitutional rights to free speech. We do not tolerate retaliation against our union members or any person who speaks out against injustice. Their abduction and disappearance are part of an intentional effort, another tactic of the terror attacks at the hands of the current presidential administration on our communities. These actions further the enforcement of strict obedience to authority at the expense of our freedoms and our lives.
The CFA has set up a bail fund for Caravello; details on how to contribute are here.
Below is a video originally posted on Reddit (r/EyesOnIce), apparently narrated by a witness to the government’s attack on the protestors, that contains some footage from the event, as well as some information about Caravello, including that just the night before, he had spoken at a Camarillo City Council meeting to “defend his students from the most recent ICE raids” in the community.
CSU Channel Islands professor Jonathan Anthony Caravello was arrested & disappeared by ICE in Camarillo
byu/CantStopPoppin inEyesOnIce
