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Bystander Detained in Anaheim Car Wash Raid as ICE Sweeps Expand Across Orange County

Aug 16, 2025·Location: Anaheim, CA

Country of origin: Mexico

Bystander Detained in Anaheim Car Wash Raid as ICE Sweeps Expand Across Orange County
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On August 16, 2025, ICE conducted enforcement operations at a Home Depot and car wash in Anaheim, detaining at least five people despite a federal court order barring sweeps based on race, language or employment type. At the Euclid Car Wash, agents deployed tear gas against a crowd of bystanders and detained Isaac Dominguez, a Black bystander and U.S. citizen who was there to wash his car, in what city officials say was the third such incident at that location since July 3. Anaheim Mayor Ashleigh Aitken has criticized the continued raids as targeting workers based on job, skin color or language, and officials report federal agents have also returned to the same Home Depot on Brookhurst Street at least six times since early June, with enforcement spreading to day laborers in Garden Grove and car wash workers in Santa Ana.

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