At least five carwashes across Los Angeles County and Orange County have been raided since Sunday, according to one labor group.
Tension has been growing for months over the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to deport people who remain in the United States illegally.
But the situation escalated in Los Angeles about a week ago. After protesters converged on immigration raids and demonstrated against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, President Trump deployed 2,000 California National Guard troops to the city.
While the focus has turned to ensuing protests in downtown Los Angeles and the heavy military response — the call-up has since increased to 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines — ICE agents have continued immigration raids each day in Southern California.
It is difficult to have a comprehensive picture of the ICE efforts because the agency does not issue a list of people who have been detained each day nor the locations where they were taken from, and authorities did not confirm the number of raids they conducted in California this week.
But residents, immigrant rights groups and elected leaders have cobbled together accounts of ICE workplace raids that they describe as indiscriminate attempts to find anyone who might be undocumented.
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