Overview
- ICE detained nine employees at Allston Car Wash on Nov. 4 in what witnesses described as a heavy show of force that included more than a dozen vehicles and an armored vehicle.
- BU student Zac Segal wrote on X that he had been calling ICE for months and took credit for the detentions, saying local jobs were being given to people with no right to be in the country.
- The College Republicans of America praised Segal, with its president calling him a hero and urging other members to report suspected immigration violations.
- An attorney for the workers says many had legal status or work permits they were not allowed to retrieve, adds none had criminal records, and notes that unlawful presence is a civil matter.
- Some detainees are being held at an ICE facility in Burlington with bond hearings scheduled next week, as a gubernatorial campaign employing Segal as an intern said it does not answer for a volunteer's social media and voiced support for due process.