Immigration agents arrived on the Central Coast on Tuesday, swarming farms in two cities and arresting a total of 40 people, according to reports from immigrant advocacy organizations.
At a Santa Maria news conference on Thursday, Hazel Davalos, co-executive director of CAUSE, the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy, called the arrests the “first occurrence of major workplace raids here on the Central Coast.”
The operations came in the wake of immigration enforcement activities in Los Angeles over the weekend that spawned protests and the deployment of military troops in response…