After riots at a California marijuana farm where ICE conducted an operation arresting 200 illegal immigrants, Los Angeles correspondent Carter Evans repeated on Friday’s CBS Evening News what someone he interviewed about the matter told him, mainly that “she feels like pretty much everyone with brown skin is a target.”
The media’s desire to base journalistic objectivity around what they view as truth instead of neutrality only seems to apply when they can call Republicans untruthful. As Evans began, he ran off Homeland Security’s justifications, “As for the raids in Camarillo and another nearby cannabis farm, the Department of Homeland Security claims it entered with search warrants, rescued at least ten migrant children from potential exploitation, and arrested what it described as 200 illegal aliens, while more than 500 rioters attempted to disrupt operations. The standoff lasted for hours, well into the night.”
However, Evans was more interested in creating a sob story than challenging his interviewees’ assertions, “Several workers hid in the farm, emerging this morning, including Jesus. Jennifer Martinez is his niece.”
Martinez was then telling reporters that, “They are just here working, living. They’re just here tearing families apart and terrorizing them.”
Evans also recalled that “We also met Rubi Ginez, who said several of her relatives worked here.”
Ginez claimed that ICE doesn’t actually care who it takes into custody, “An aunt was taken, a mom was taken. They can be a citizen, not a U.S. citizen, doesn't matter.”
That’s obviously not true because if it was, Ginez herself would have been arrested. Nevertheless, back in studio, co-host Maurice DuBois asked, “Carter, how's the family handling the situation? What are they going to do next?”
Evans elaborated on Ginez’s comments:
Well, Ruby told me that this is a really difficult time for her family. She says she feels like pretty much everyone with brown skin is a target. She said that she was in fact pulled over by ICE the other day when she was taking her child to school, and she had to prove that she was a U.S. citizen. A very scary time for her entire family. She says they have even had to approach the subject of self-deporting with some family members. It's a difficult subject to talk about, but they said they have to consider it because going to a detention center and having no information about where they are going to send you could be even worse.
Ginez is free to talk to CBS because she wasn’t arrested, but she did admit that not everyone in her family is here legally, so maybe ICE isn’t actually simply targeting brown people, and all of this outrage is because ICE raided not a food-producing farm but a marijuana-producing one.
Evans’s report would re-air the following day on CBS Saturday Morning.
Here is a transcript for the July 11 show:
CBS Evening News
7/11/2025
6:37 PM ET
CARTER EVANS: As for the raids in Camarillo and another nearby cannabis farm, the Department of Homeland Security claims it entered with search warrants, rescued at least ten migrant children from potential exploitation, and arrested what it described as 200 illegal aliens, while more than 500 rioters attempted to disrupt operations. The standoff lasted for hours, well into the night. Several workers hid in the farm, emerging this morning, including Jesus. Jennifer Martinez is his niece.
JENNIFER MARTINEZ: They are just here working, living. They’re just here tearing families apart and terrorizing them.
EVANS: We also met Rubi Ginez, who said several of her relatives worked here.
RUBI GINEZ: An aunt was taken, a mom was taken. They can be a citizen, not a U.S. citizen, doesn't matter.
EVANS: Everybody –
GINEZ: It’s everybody. Yeah.
MAURICE DUBOIS: Carter, how's the family handling the situation? What are they going to do next?
EVANS: Well, Ruby told me that this is a really difficult time for her family. She says she feels like pretty much everyone with brown skin is a target. She said that she was in fact pulled over by ICE the other day when she was taking her child to school, and she had to prove that she was a U.S. citizen. A very scary time for her entire family. She says they have even had to approach the subject of self-deporting with some family members. It's a difficult subject to talk about, but they said they have to consider it because going to a detention center and having no information about where they are going to send you could be even worse.
