Overview

• Two employees were detained Sunday at Bristol Car Wash in Santa Ana as several vehicles with agents arrived and made arrests within minutes, witnesses said, with DHS yet to provide details.
• Seven workers were detained Saturday at Bixby Knolls Car Wash in Long Beach; DHS confirmed the arrests as videos showed masked agents in dark SUVs and a detainee appearing to faint.
• The Long Beach car wash manager said at least four of the seven detainees had documents granting legal status and identified them as nationals of Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico.
• The operations came days after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed immigration authorities to resume mobile patrols in Los Angeles County and seven nearby counties.
• Lawyers warn the tactics heighten the risk of appearance- or location-based detentions, as an NBC News analysis counts more than 58,000 people detained by ICE since the start of President Trump’s second term.