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Advocates Warn LA County-Area Car Wash Operators to Be Ready for More Raids, Decry ICE Tactics
Activists formed a protection unit to educate and empower car wash workers amid over 80 raids and approximately 250 detentions since June, aiming to document enforcement actions.
- On September 11, 2025, advocates from the CLEAN Carwash Worker Center and allies revealed that over 80 immigration enforcement actions have targeted car washes across Southern California, resulting in the detention of about 250 employees at the closed La Cienega Car Wash in West Los Angeles.
- These raids began in June 2025 and followed a political climate emphasizing increased immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, which framed the situation as an invasion and prioritized deporting unauthorized immigrants, often without criminal records.
- Advocates emphasized the challenges immigrant workers face in the car wash industry, including extended workdays, minimal pay, and hazardous environments, while noting their resilience in building families. They also urged community members to record immigration enforcement activities to encourage more respectful treatment from agents.
- Flor Melendrez emphasized that supporting your neighborhood car wash by recording can influence whether workers finish their shifts and return home safely or face detention, while Pablo Alvarado encouraged people to obey the law while also capturing and sharing what occurs.
- These developments suggest continued tension in immigration policy enforcement, with community groups preparing to protect workers and shift public awareness by recording raids and advocating for immigrant rights amid rising ICE activity.
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Advocates warn LA County-area car wash operators to be ready for more raids, decry ICE tactics
More than 80 immigration raids have been conducted at car washes throughout Southern California in recent weeks, with approximately 250 workers detained, a coalition of carwash workers and their families announced Thursday. Car wash operators had best be ready for more, they added. On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court defending the use of “roving patrols” for such actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, members of the CLEAN Carw…
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