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Maria Villarroel

U.S. Citizen Details Horrors of His Three-Day Long ICE Detention: 'A Violation of My Civil Rights'

People embrace near federal agents blocking a road during an ICE immigration raid at a nearby licensed cannabis farm on July 10, 2025 near Camarillo, California. (Credit: Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

George Retes, an Army veteran who was detained and held for days after last week's immigration raid in Camarillo, Calif., is now detailing his experience, warning Americans that what he endured could happen to anyone.

Retes, 25, says he was reporting for his security job at Glass House Farms, a cannabis farm, in Camarillo on July 10 when several federal agents surrounded his car and broke his window, pepper sprayed him and dragged him out— even though he identified himself as a U.S. citizen.

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