California migrant horrendously injured after falling off building while trying to run from ICE
Jaime Garcia was working at Glass House Farms in Camarillo when ICE raided it and several migrants took off running.
While trying to escape the raid after agents showed up armed, he fell 30 feet off a building and broke his neck and skull, a family member told ABC 7.
He was taken to the hospital, where he remains on life support and is not expected to survive.
Garcia was working at the cannabis farm in Ventura County to send money home to his wife and daughter in Mexico.
'My uncle Jaime was just a hard-working, innocent farmer,' his niece Yesenia Duran wrote in a GoFundMe. 'He was his family's provider.
'My uncle's life is in critical condition; doctors have told us he won't make it. His injuries are catastrophic. His heart is still beating. God will make His decision.
The family said if he passes away, he will be buried in Mexico.
The fundraiser had garnered more than $20,000 in the first four hours of going live.
Daily Mail has reached out to the family and Glass House Farms for comment.
Members of the National Guard were deployed to the farm on Thursday along with law enforcement agents.
It was part of the broad federal crackdown on undocumented workers in Southern California that quickly spiraled.
After ICE agents fired smoke canisters into a crowd of demonstrators near Laguna Road, an individual could be clearly seen raising a firearm and appeared to discharge it in the agents' direction.
Agents blocked off roads and stormed the facility in what witnesses described as a sudden and aggressive operation.
Tear gas choked the air, smoke bombs were thrown and projectiles flew.
Protesters, farmworkers, and family members scattered through the fields.
At least three people were taken to the hospital while dozens more were detained.
Video and photos from the scene showed ICE agents clashing with a crowd of more than 100 people - many of them farmworkers or their family members - who had initially formed a human blockade along the road.
The raid seemed to come as a complete surprise.
The farm's sprawling cannabis operation, one of the largest in the state, was quickly sealed off with yellow crime scene tape marked 'U.S. Border Patrol.'
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