Posted on 06/26/2025 3:41:30 AM PDT by TheDon
Without warning — even to local police — masked federal agents have been captured on video descending on Southern California businesses, getting out of unmarked or lightly marked vehicles and, swiftly, detaining who they suspect are immigrants without legal status.
The videos show officers, also wearing T-shirts, jeans and hats with the only indication at times of their law enforcement status an olive green vest with “Police” or “Border Patrol” written in small yellow letters on the back.
In Torrance on Sunday, June 22, more than a dozen agents, mostly in plainclothes, arrived at the Bubble Bath Car Wash on 213th Street and quickly put two employees in handcuffs before shoving the owner and questioning a third employee, according to videos posted on social-media and news reports.
Police agencies in Southern California say during these immigration raids even they aren’t always getting any warning.
Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo said the lack of identifying logos and communication with local officers creates potential problems.
“To have federal agents come into our city and not notify our Police Department, draw their weapon for taking a picture and do so without identifying themselves as law enforcement in unmarked vehicles and out of uniform creates a dangerous situation,” he said.
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Old Nate doesn’t get it?! He sure does imo. Anything to whip up the tools that support illegals and despise ICE. I must say, being an ICE agent has got to be the toughest LEO job out there.
But he did not question the thousands of armed IRS agents complete with bullets that brandon set upon the real citizens of this Country!
Agreed. More ICE please.
The real good news is that this type of action helps balloon the self-deportation numbers, maybe the Trump admin sees this in their numbers. For those millions that want to come back know if the feds have to boot them they will never be able to come back. If the deportation numbers from the feds are anything close to the past six months (claimed) we are looking at eight million self-deportations in 4 years at that rate.
Fantasy of course but this must terrify the left.
Mayor Gordo has his feelings hurt. Maybe he should put some ICE on that.
Sounds like the feds are doing a fine job.
Keep it up Tom Holman.
the criminal sanctuary policies are the problem
I don’t recall this level of hysteria when BATF&E was raiding homes wearing similar outfits (except in black) and behaving the same way.
Gets me excited to hear future numbers when they start announcing how many people have been deported and how many potentially self-deported.
“ The author has a surprising lack of curiosity about why local police are not being informed about immigration enforcement actions.”
Exactly correct.
California has leaders calling for cholos to kill ICE agents. Not a mystery why they’re cut out of the loop.
It’s creating successful missions because the police would otherwise be tipping the gangs off.
The OC Register is a leftist rag, barely a shadow of what it once was and began slanting pro Hispanic/migrant decades ago, which is why we dropped it.........decades ago.
‘Dangerous Situations’ = Illegals
What ever it takes to clean up the mess is a good deal.
Secrecy yields results.
Not as dangerous as the illegal invasion of the USA by an army of anti-American soldiers and the complicity of treasonous US citizens.
I’m relieved that the Feds no longer trust or spread arrest raids of illegal alien criminals with the local yokel cops. Most of the local fuzz these days are pals with the “bad boys” and even some the cops are relatives of “Bad Boys” on the streets. JMO. Of course, it’s always been that way if you believe some movies and TV shows. Now we even have the LAPD supporting the Iranian “Death to America” mooolahs and ayatollahs because President Trump dusted their butts and nukes.
When this story first broke they made it sound like ICE just showed up at a car wash and started arresting everybody. Now it comes out that they were looking for two bad hombres in particular. Next we’ll learn that the illegals were out on no cash bail for rape and murder.
EC
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