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On a sunny morning last July, hundreds of heavily armed immigration agents in camouflage stormed a greenhouse complex in Camarillo, an hour north of Los Angeles.
They came with face masks, guns, chemical munitions and armored tactical vehicles, blocking access along a road lined by produce fields.
What unfolded next would irreversibly transform the lives of many there that day.
It was after 10am when Santiago*, an undocumented farmworker from Mexico who had been working at the greenhouse for just three weeks, saw the agents flood in.
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