Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, isn’t talking about bipartisanship deal-making anymore.

He’s angry and has been ever since President Donald Trump took office in January. The contempt for Trump exploded last Wednesday when Carbajal tried to walk by federal authorities conducting a raid at Glass House Farms in Carpinteria.

Carbajal, a Mexican-born immigrant who served for eight years in the United States Marine Corps Reserves, is calling “all hands on deck” to battle the federal government on several topics.

“They are trying to undermine our democratic institutions,” Carbajal said. “This is all hands on deck, as members of Congress and communities across our country. They have to organize and protest and speak out. This is the time to do it. We are not going to tolerate it. We are going to resist all these ridiculous tactics.”

Carbajal spoke with Noozhawk a day after the Carpinteria cannabis farm sweep and the larger raid of Glass House Farms in Camarillo. The Department of Homeland Security reportedly detained more than 300 people connected to the immigration enforcement operations at the two Glass House Farms.

At least 10 were taken into custody in Carpinteria, and 10 minors were detained at the Camarillo facility.

The immigration raids, which included agents carrying rifles, deploying tear gas and smoke cannisters, turned into chaos in Camarillo. A man allegedly shot a weapon at agents, according to a video posted on ABC 7 news.

The immigration actions have sparked a firestorm of debate over Trump and the federal government’s immigration policies, with conservatives and liberal slinging arrows.

Graham Farrar, who grew up in Santa Barbara and is the president of Glass House Farms, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Gov. Gavin Newsom and several other Democrats. The company owns and operates several local cannabis businesses including cultivation greenhouses and dispensaries.

Farrar said on X: “Glass House has never knowingly violated applicable hiring practices and does not and has never employed minors.”

While the politics fight rages in spaces on the internet, on the ground a growing number of people are increasingly infuriated over the style, manner and extremism of the raids that have resulted in family separations and uprooting of men and women who provide for their families by working at farms.

A story in the Santa Barbara Independent details how an undocumented mother with no criminal history, working a 3 a.m. to noon shift at Glass House Farms in Carpinteria, was arrested and made a phone call to her 15-year-old son while in custody to ask him to take care of his brothers, 8 and 9 years old.

The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement that said it rescued 10 migrant children from the Camarillo workplace, and that there was potential exploitation, forced labor, and human trafficking. Glass House Farms is under federal investigation, federal officials said.

Carbajal is furious about the way he was treated, the way families are being separated, and the way “brown” people are being portrayed. He said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are just trying to meet quotas.

“They are profiling people who look brown, but they could come after anyone next,” Carbajal said. “We now know they are not just after criminals. They are beyond that. They are not getting the numbers they wanted. They have unleashed a force of agents just to get up the numbers of detainees and deportations.”

He said they are taking a “profiling approach just because they are brown.”

“It can happen to anyone in this country,” Carbajal said. “It could be you after the brown people.”

He said ICE is “running amok.”

“It is political motivation and political theater that Trump and his administration are doing,” Carbajal said. “They are going after individuals in our farms. These individuals vastly are not criminals.

“They are hard-working individuals helping to harvest our food. They are helping our construction and hospitality.”

Carbajal said the most vulnerable people were falling victim to the federal administration even before Thursday’s sweeps. He blasted Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”

“This big ugly bill is a betrayal of the American people,” Carbajal said. “They are cutting a trillion dollars from health care. They are taking over 17 million people and kicking them off of Medi-Cal.”

Carbajal said about 300 hospitals in rural areas could see services reduced and 28 could close altogether.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the bill will add $3.3 trillion to the national deficit in the next decade. About 11.8 million people could lose their health insurance by 2034.

Regarding immigration enforcement, Carbajal said he and others in the U.S. Congress will be pulling out all the stops.

“We are putting forward legislation to stop these tactics,” Carbajal said. “I just signed on to a bill that doesn’t allow the deployment of the military on U.S. soil without the consent of a governor.”

He said, “Obviously there’s litigation” also to combat Trump and the federal government.

And, finally, he said he is encouraging the public to be active, “be non-violent, organize, march, chant, yell, but do it peacefully.”

“This Trump is acting like an emperor or dictator or a king, and is trying to push the executive authority as much as he can,” Carbajal said. “He doesn’t have to worry about re-election, so he doesn’t care.

“There are a lot of people having buyer’s remorse about electing this guy.”