CSUCI Professor arrested among Glass House raids
Jonathan Caravello, a professor at CSU Channel Islands, was among one of the more than 200 people arrested from the federal agent’s raid of Glass House Farms’ operations in both Carpinteria and Camarillo on July 10.
In a statement, the California Faculty Association said that Caravello, according to witnesses, was arrested on July 10 after attempting to help a person in a wheelchair who had a tear gas canister lodged underneath their wheelchair.
CFA President Margarita Berta-Ávila said in the July 10 statement that while attempting to help the bystander, who could not see or breathe, Caravello was “abruptly taken down by immigration agents, dragged into an unmarked vehicle and taken to an unknown location.”
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, Caravello is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.
“We strongly condemn the abduction of California Faculty Association professor, member and activist Jonathan A. Caravello, Ph.D. and other community members terrorized and arrested by federal immigration authorities while exercising their constitutional rights to protest peacefully in Camarillo, CA on Thursday, July 10th, 2025,” the CFA’s statement read.
According to CSUCI’s website, Caravello is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at CSU Channel Islands and an active member of the California Faculty Association.
