Advocates for car wash employees who have been detained in immigration operations will be speaking about what these businesses can do if federal agents show up.
Advocates say that more than 80 car washes have been targeted since the raids began in June.
Organizers tell NBC4 that one business where a raid recently happened is now shut down because of the impact from that raid.
Surveillance video from Aug. 21 at La Cienega car wash showed one employee being taken away with his hands behind his back by agents in tactical gear, with their faces covered.
The owner says he started with 13 employees before this raid happened and was later left with only three.
He says he is not sure if those immigration agents took 10 employees or if someone of them ran to escape.
A group called the “Clean Carwash Worker Center” advocates for car wash workers and helps them organize.
On Thursday, they plan to be at the shuttered La Cienega Car Wash to talk about how these businesses can document raids and what workers, customers, and owners can and can’t do if ICE, or homeland security shows up.
The center says 250 workers have been detained at car washes.
The recent immigration enforcement operations that began in June in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California are part of President Trump’s campaign promise to carry out a mass deportation plan.
The administration has highlighted arrests involving undocumented individuals with violent crime convictions.
Those who have been caught up in the nationwide raids include asylum seekers, people who overstayed their visas and migrants awaiting their day in immigration court.
Through August, nearly 61,000 migrants had been taken into ICE detention since the start of President Trump’s second term, according NBC News, which used ICE data both public and internal as well as data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
About 30% of those in detention had criminal convictions; 25% had pending criminal charges; 45% were listed as “other immigration violator;” and 11.6% were fast-tracked for deportation.