Rep. Carbajal Under Fire from ICE for Sharing Agent’s Info During Chaotic Cannabis Raid
ICE alleges that the card was shared with protestors who were throwing rocks at agents.
Democrat Congressman Salud Carbajal admitted on video that he took a business card from an ICE agent during a chaotic raid in Carpinteria. On its own, that might seem routine, until ICE publicly accused him of handing that card to a violent mob.
ICE alleges that the card was shared with protestors who were throwing rocks at agents. One officer was later struck and bloodied during the clash.
Rep. Salud Carbajal was part of a violent mob of protestors attempting to obstruct federal law enforcement as they executed a criminal search warrant at a marijuana facility. He cites “peaceful” protestors, when in fact these rioters were launching rocks at officers, injuring at… https://t.co/yPNkcXOqkC
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) July 13, 2025
The Congressman did an interview right after the raid:
Below is the full transcript of Congressman Carbajal’s remarks from the scene:
“We’re ICE just finished an ICE raid operation. I got here. I got many calls from constituents, from social media. We saw what was happening, and I came here to do my congressional oversight responsibilities. When I got here, there was obviously a crowd of protests.
And it was overkill. Over 50 ICE agents that were here, and they were conducting this operation. They were creating fear, anxiety and intimidation. They were dressed in military garb, clothing, military grade weapons. They were just creating an untenable, incendiary circumstance. You had a sense where they could have got members of the public and themselves hurt. They were pouring gasoline on the flames of this situation.
This is ridiculous. There was a child that was hurt. They deployed various flash devices and smoke devices. Here’s part of the shrapnel that came from one of those devices, and it actually hurt a young child that was in the crowd. This is deplorable. This should not be happening on our soil. Individuals dressed like military personnel on our soil. We don’t do that in America. This is overkill. This was a bunch of crap.
And I’m here to do our oversight. They didn’t let me through. I saw other members of the public right through here on bicycles, and certainly they did not let me go through the line, the perimeter line that they created. Eventually they dispersed, and that’s why I’m here right now.
It’s my understanding they apprehended 10 out of the 12 individuals that were here. I got that from the owner of this nursery, not from the ICE agents. Nobody would speak to me. I only got a card from the government relations person and asked me to, if I wanted information, to call Los Angeles. This is unacceptable. If I’m here as a member of Congress doing my oversight responsibility, I should be given the information and the contact information that I need. And that was not the case today. This is deplorable.”
Later, speaking to The Independent, Carbajal went further, mocking the agents themselves:
“They looked like they were having fun dressing up like they were in the military. I’m guessing less than half of them had ever served.”
Carbajal has repeatedly characterized the raid as overly aggressive, using terms like “overkill,” “deplorable,” and “militarized.” But ICE now alleges that amid the chaos, the congressman compromised an officer’s safety by exposing his identity to a hostile crowd, and the consequences followed.
This isn’t about a disagreement over immigration policy. It’s about safety, discretion, and the responsibility that comes with public office. Whether intentional or not, sharing the identity of a federal officer during an escalating confrontation puts lives in danger.
Mocking law enforcement officers, disregarding security protocol, and enabling escalation is not legitimate oversight; it’s reckless. As tensions rise nationwide, elected officials must understand the weight of their words and actions.
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It is time to the the gloves off and deal with those who are heavily invested in interfering with the enforcement of federal law.
Lock. Them. Up.
One has to wonder how the protesters know in advance the locations of these raids.
Clearly someone on the inside is tipping them off. That is surely illegal, right? It’s time to find those persons and prosecute them.
Do they know in advance? I would think that they don’t, but as soon as anyone spots some action they send out an alert and anyone in driving distance quickly arrives.
There have been confirmed instances of leaks before ICE raids.
It’s possible. But some of them have to be pre-leaked.
What? These thugs don’t have jobs?
For many of them this is their job, for which they are paid.
Perhaps someone playing “oversight”?
Perhaps it’s time someone made an app that tracked members of Congress, their location, their home address, their family, the family place of work …
Meet Mrs Carbajal at the grocery store or the gas station. Pay a visit to Carbajal kids at school, at the playground, or in the neighborhood.
Tit for tat.
Of course, let’s not do what Maxine Mombasa wants, to surround them, to run them out of restaurants, to kill them.
They just need to “know” we are there.
I would question the Representative’s allegiance but by his word and deed he leaves no doubt.
“Carbajal.”
Enough said. His “allegiance “ is to his “people.”
Now, if white people held allegiance to white people, then we have Not See Germany.
I would suggest that a task force be created to make certain that whatever, if anything, happens to that ICE agent happens to Salud
Maybe it would be better for ICE to stop worrying about the safety of these elected officials demanding access to facilities and during ongoing raids/operations? Just have them sign a waiver at the dismount point that they understand they will be treated as any other person if they step a millimeter out of line or in anyway impede or interfere with operations and that by entering if they injured by detainees or subjects its on them and ICE won’t save them until the operation is concluded. Finally that since they didn’t coordinate in advance there’s ‘tour guide dog and pony show’ crap where they are escorted and no questions will be answered under this scenario.
Of course these folks wouldn’t sign such a waiver. Offer it anyway then let them in after advising them that’s the protocol whether they sign or not. Get it on body cam and let the chips fall where they may. If these folks get hurt by a detainee/suspect, get a whiff of CS in a crowd, get shoved back out of the way of ICE doing their job and then get arrested, put into cuffs and transported to federal detention center all of that is on them for choosing not to coordinate.
I wouldn’t bother with a waiver. Just announce that as a matter of policy Congressmen will not get any special treatment unless there’s a specific statute requiring it, such as the one that lets them inspect DHS detention facilities. No more courtesies, since these are not returned. They hold ICE in contempt, so it should hold them the same way.
If there is a law allowing them to “oversee” operations like this, I’d like to see it.
To be clear what I am proposing for unannounced ‘inspections’ is a reciprocal deliver lack of coordination by ICE at the facility. IOW ‘go on in but no ICE personnel will escort or answer any questions. No Congressional Staff, no security detail allowed entry on an unannounced, uncoordinated ‘inspection’ only the Congressman allowed entry. Staff isn’t under any obligation to interrupt ongoing routine to accommodate the ‘inspection’ beyond opening up the doors and letting them in and If they get taken hostage, stabbed or worse by detainees… that’s on them. I’m sure the FBI HRT from Quantico won’t take too long to arrive and rescue them.
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Wouldn’t he need specific authorization from committees within Congress to empower this oversight? I remember Congressmen being turned away when wanting to see the J6 prisoners about conditions in the prison. Handing over the info to a protestor makes him a party to any doxxing issue. Of course, nothing will happen…nothing does… laws apply only to the peons.
That’s what I was asking. In the case of facilities used by the DHS to detain or house people, this is not the case. Individual congressmen do have the right to show up unannounced, at any time of day or night, to personally perform oversight. It’s possible that more such statutes exist, granting them such rights in other situations. But unless someone can point to such a statute, the default position is as you say, that individual congressmen have no more “oversight” rights than you or I do.
Their “oversight” authority generally ends at the committee room door, unless they make arrangements to have an oversight visit, which they are not doing.
“As tensions rise nationwide, elected officials must understand the weight of their words and actions.”
Believe me… they do. Why do you think Carbajal handed the business card to an angry mob?
The mobs are the shock troops of the Democrats. These Democrat “elected officials” WANT this violence. Of course they won’t get their own hands dirty, but make no mistake that they want this to happen.
Shock troops?
Nah.
Brown shirts of the Not See Party.
They pretend to be a revolutionary movement but are too poorly trained, equipped, or organized to be more than a nuisance at this point. That may change, and when it does we must go after the money and identify the backers, especially if they are public officials. Real revolutions require martyrs, so let’s give them some.
Does he have that legal right? I don’t know that he doesn’t, because there may be some statute that gives it to him. But in the absence of a specific statute saying so, as far as I know he has no such right.
Congress, not individual congressmen, has the right of oversight of the executive, which it exercises by summoning members of the executive to testify at hearings. But when a congressman shows up somewhere, especially at an ongoing operation, then as far as I know he is exactly like anyone else. If someone knows of a law that says otherwise, please let me know.
I’d agree about a active operation, there’s almost certainly not a statute specifically authorizing such and if there is I doubt it was written to require LEO to protect or accommodate members of Congress on site during an active operation/crime scene. Any such statute would have been written decades ago when mutual cooperation and respect still existed and it would have been seen as unnecessary.
He doesn’t care. He lied, either because he’s too stupid to understand what you so eloquently explained, or more likely he knows that but simply knowingly makes false statements which he knows will not be fact-checked and challenged at least until the damage is done and his soundbite becomes de facto policy (until the shoe is on the other foot). He done it deliberate.
“Individuals dressed like military personnel on our soil. We don’t do that in America. This is overkill. This was a bunch of crap.”
Roger Stone, Donald Trump, Mark Houck, and others would like a word.
I expect military personnel to repel invaders.
And “Enemies, Foreign and Domestic.”
the left continues their war against civility
insurrection /ĭn″sə-rĕk′shən/
noun
The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.
A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state.
How DARE you use actual definitions in your arguments!
Since when has oversight included on-the-scene interference with law enforcement?
Since the democrats have decided that oversight includes on-the-scene interference with law enforcement because it makes good theater for the unwashed, ignorant democrats masses. And of course, the republicans allow them to get away with it time and time again.
If that agent or if anyone in his family are harmed then missed your carbajal should be tried as an accessory and get the same punishment as the person who actually did the deed.
Well, apparently Mr is the same as missed your.. I’m glad I don’t trust AI to do anything actually important
Oh please, Carbajal will simply claim “Congressional Immunity” due to the fact he was performing his “constitutional oversight authority” at the ICE raid and therefore no charges can be brought against him for any of his acts or actions. And that will be the end of it. Guaranteed.
That doesn’t mean that someone couldn’t dox him, as well as publishing where all of his relatives, live, work, and/or go to school. Suddenly that will be the most heinous act imaginable.
Congressional immunity covers speech, not actions. And passing information to criminals counts as action, not as speech; see the case of Lynn Whatshername, the terrorist lawyer.
The article isn’t clear – the assumption is that the card had an agent’s personal info (at the very least his name) – but if it was SPECIFICALLY a generic “call this number for more info” card and NOT the personal business card of the “government relations person” it wasn’t doxing. If ICE has a policy of no personal names given to a mob of “protestors” it seems silly of them to give one of them – even a Congress critter there to pose for the cameras – a regular business card.
That aside – his claim of “overkill” is stupid. They throw rocks, you throw flash bangs and teargas to get them to disperse and stop – that’s both legal AND appropriate. Part of the REASON agents on an ICE raid are “dressed like military personnel” is to protect them from rock throwers so that it IS possible to respond with deadly force (throwing rocks counts) with less than deadly force. Hence flashbangs and teargas instead of Jent State tactics. The “shrapnel” he is referring to the residue there-of – his equating it with ACTUAL shrapnel is either a purposeful lie or ignorance.
The “peaceful protestors” at the cannabis farm raid certainly intended to injure or kill ICE agents – even the ones not firing a gun at them.
Fan of Schlock Mercenary here.
One of The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries is #37. There is no ‘overkill.’ There is only ‘open fire’ and ‘I need to reload.’
Just remember that only you can prevent friendly fire.
Treason? Or is treason only OUS?
No, but in ways it comes closer than most cases where that word is loosely tossed around.
Carbajal was born in Mexico. His family were farm workers who came to the US to work, when Carbajal was five years old. They appear to have immigrated illegally. Nonetheless, Carbajal, the youngest child, finished high school and went to college. He applied for citizenship at 21. So it appears he has a visceral sympathy for illegals. And a firm belief that not all US laws need to be obeyed.
Yippee! Our failed Immigration system strikes again!
¡Viva La Raza! (Long live the Race!)
They’re not even a damn “race.”
They’re an “ethnicity,” and no official can even tell you with any certainty whether you are in it or out of it.
Just as men are women, and blacks can’t be racist, Spaniards aren’t Hispanic. Imagine.
“Race” is a loosely-defined term. There is such a thing as “the American race”.
Only in the intro to American Dad.
No, it’s a lot older than that.
Of course he does. Illegals are his “people.”
This Congressman is way out of line. The demonrats are trying to force confrontation to give them commercial material for 2026. They are not allowed to barge in on active service of warrants. Next the President has specifically called for arrests and charges for those who block and/or throw objects at Federal law enforcement officers. President Trump needs to classify antifa as a domestic terror organization. Then go after the funding mechanism as aid to a terrorist organization.
The demonrats are trying to force confrontation to give them commercial material for 2026.
And the hilarious part is that all of they’ve gotten so far is material to benefit Trump. Mexican flag-wavers standing on burned out cars, like a marauding barbarian invasion and children doing slave labor in an illegal drug production facility.
They are simply currying favor from the 30% faction that hates the US and seeks to destroy it. There are discrete regions where these traitors locally predominate, and these demagogues are trying to exploit that to gain power and wealth. This will intensify until loyalist majority finally gets motivated enough to stop it and selects leaders themselves who are capable and willing to do so.
There is no such classification. The only analogous classification that exists is “Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization”, in which the key word is “foreign”. Domestic organizations are excluded from that classification by definition.
But Antifa is German.
But thanks for giving the KKK a pass.
No, the original antifa, in the 1920s, was German. The current antifa is domestic, and therefore can’t be designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
Nor can the KKK.
What a total POS — par for the course, where the vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crat subversives and fifth columnists are concerned.
Individuals dressed like military personnel on our soil.
Ummm, actually, we DO do that. All the time. Heck, some of us even complain about it pretty regularly. But even civilians do it.
Where were you after Waco?
“And it was overkill. Over 50 ICE agents that were here, and they were conducting this operation. They were creating fear, anxiety and intimidation. They were dressed in military garb, clothing, military grade weapons.”
Now do the FBI against J6 grandmas.
Also, the BATF against pretty much everybody.
Try the TSA pervs with grandmas and kids.
Is it just me or did everyone forget that growing, possessing, transporting, selling, or using marijuana is against FEDERAL law?! As a physician and DEA registrant and authorized prescriber, I won’t even suggest a patient try the stuff “for medicinal purposes” because I don’t believe any of the hype surrounding it with the exception of the authorized use of dronabinol as an FDA-approved product. So what was that Cabrón doing on a marijuana farm stuffed to the gills with illegals and with child labor?
Quality control.
It’s a federal law that is more honored in the breach than the observance. It’s official DOJ policy not to enforce it in states where it’s not also against state law, and that’s how it should be because Congress never had any business making that law in the first place. A law that is not enforced may as well not exist. So in practical terms it’s legal, just as sodomy or miscegenation were effectively legal in most states long before SCOTUS officially struck down the laws against them.