When immigration agents came to the farm where he worked, Jaime Alanis tried to hide. Climbing to the roof of a greenhouse, while agents rounded up and arrested dozens of his coworkers below, Mr Alanis hoped to stay out of sight.

California politicians reacted to the U.S. Border Patrol’s immigration raid leading to the arrest of 12 individuals in Sacramento on Thursday. The immigration operation took place at a Home Depot parking lot in south Sacramento and was carried out by armed and masked agents.

On the heels of major shows of force by federal immigration agents in Southern California, a judge is set to rule in a lawsuit seeking to halt immigration raids in Los Angeles.