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Immigration raids ratchet up anxiety, empty some businesses of customers and workers
The Orange County Register ^ | June 15, 2025 | Anissa Rivera

Posted on 06/17/2025 6:09:23 AM PDT by TheDon

The business community, from El Monte to Downey to Perris, no longer fears the impact of federal immigration raids on workplaces. They are seeing the painful fallout firsthand.

In the weeks after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents ramped up their roundups of migrant workers from car washes, swap meets and hubs such as L.A.’s Flower District, business owners and city leaders say the operations are disrupting life and spreading fear in their communities.

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Todd Lyons, the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended his tactics last week week against criticism that authorities are being too heavy-handed. He has said ICE is averaging about 1,600 arrests per day and that the agency has arrested “dangerous criminals.”

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(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; ohnoanyway; raids
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A nice long article demonstrating the effectiveness of the aggressive enforcement of immigration laws.

With the usual conflation of illegal aliens with legal visa holders and immigrants.

Also, the usual bias of not indicating the political party of illegal alien supporters.

1 posted on 06/17/2025 6:09:23 AM PDT by TheDon
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To: TheDon

Yay! Funny how these “journalists” try to make vinegar out of honey


2 posted on 06/17/2025 6:11:58 AM PDT by albie
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...empty some businesses of customers and workers

How empty can some businesses be?

In 2019 we had 10 or 15 million less illegals and businesses weren't empty, they were thriving.

3 posted on 06/17/2025 6:16:34 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: TheDon

Oh no. Oh well


4 posted on 06/17/2025 6:16:48 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: TheDon

I don’t want those in our nation illegally to ever feel safe and comfortable. I want them to be nervous. I want them to go home where they can feel safe.


5 posted on 06/17/2025 6:20:34 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I’ll take a wait and see...)
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To: TheDon

“...city leaders say the operations are disrupting life and spreading fear in their communities”

Criminals SHOULD fear, especially illegal alien scumbag parasite democrat voters who think they can just barge into the USA without any repercussions. These cockroaches need to suffer greatly, along with their rat enablers.

Get them OUT, all of them OUT!


6 posted on 06/17/2025 6:25:11 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: TheDon

——spreading fear——

What is happening is that some illegals are coming to the realization that they are in jeopardy by being in America. They are realizing that the false sanctuary is non existent.

The best sourse is to get the hell out of Dodge


7 posted on 06/17/2025 6:25:30 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: albie

Yep...they write this as if it’s a BAD thing.

Having said that.....ICE needs to come to my Walmart....and not just to vet the customers either.


8 posted on 06/17/2025 6:35:11 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

I do like your tag line!


9 posted on 06/17/2025 6:43:29 AM PDT by madrastex
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To: V_TWIN

“ICE needs to come to my Walmart”

I think Walmart hires TPS people and refugees.


10 posted on 06/17/2025 6:47:32 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: TheDon

George Floyd riots destroyed business i.e. emptied business of everything and everybody. No tears from them from the MSM.


11 posted on 06/17/2025 6:48:07 AM PDT by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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To: FreeReign

Obviously businesses expanded or opened to serve them. (Think of those loaded cards Biden and the NGOs gave them monthly!)

But if the deportations we need really ever take place, there will be significant disruption and change very much for the ultimate good of the country.


12 posted on 06/17/2025 6:49:47 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: TheDon

A quote for the parts of the business community that support illegals...

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

Samuel Adams


13 posted on 06/17/2025 6:53:12 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Brian Griffin

Give businesses 30 days notice to clean up their employees and then go after the owners who still hire illegals.


14 posted on 06/17/2025 7:01:47 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Brian Griffin

They live here and are enjoying our freedoms and benifits they need have respect for our country and speak our freakin’ language


15 posted on 06/17/2025 7:03:07 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: TheDon

Too bad.


16 posted on 06/17/2025 7:13:28 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: 9YearLurker
But if the deportations we need really ever take place, there will be significant disruption and change very much for the ultimate good of the country.

Going back to 2019 levels of illegals and business should not be disruptive, overall.

Do the math. Add legal population growth and associated business growth, of course.

If we can thrive in 2019 without illegals, we can do the same in 2025 to 2028 without them. Obviously. Believing otherwise is believing the open borders propaganda.

17 posted on 06/17/2025 7:21:03 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

EMPLOYERS HAVE KNOWN SINCE INCEPTION THAT THEY CANNOT HIRE ILLEGALS.

IT IS CLEAR IN ALL THE MATERIALS GIVEN OUT WHEN THEY GET A TUN & START TO REPORT & PAY DEDUCTED TAXES/FICA, ETC.

ANY NOTICES ARE REDUNDANT

NONE OF THIS IS NEW INFORMATION


18 posted on 06/17/2025 7:36:08 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Exactly, they should be in fear 24/7 till they leave.


19 posted on 06/17/2025 8:36:28 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: FreeReign

We should go back to 2000 levels of illegals, assuming that that’s about the best we could do.


20 posted on 06/17/2025 8:39:51 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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