Armed immigration officers aren’t always telling local police about raids and some fear it’s a creating ‘dangerous situations’

The Orange County Register ^ | June 25, 2025 | Nathaniel Percy

[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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[albie]

“Next we’ll learn that the illegals were out on no cash bail for rape and murder.”
…that is certain

[hal ogen]

ICE also should arrest the business owners who employ the illegal alien trash parasites. OUT! GET OUT!!!

[bobbo666]

Not quite. Such policies are set in place by persons to deliberately violate the law, sometimes Fed AND state law.

Until someone moves in and tosses some of these persons into jail nothing will change. The rich/celebrities always escape justice. Not so the poor.

[eccentric]

Boo-hoo. ICE wouldn’t need so many raids if they could just pick up the criminals at the courthouse and jails.

[markman46]

the funny part is the LA dodgers DO NOT own the parking lot, when the previous owner Frank McCort sold the team and the stadium he kept the parking lot, adn gets the money from all those people who attend the games at 25.000 per. so mayor bAss needs to keep her castro mouth shit

[markman46]

the OC Register is owned by the LA Times as is the San Diego Union

[Mastador1]

They are now but back in the day they were independent and for the most part conservative. Even back then though it was The Herald Examiner I preferred.