WATCH: ICE Targets Los Angeles Car Wash Companies for Using Illegal Workers



by Neil Munro 24 Jun 2025

ICE agents are shutting down low-tech car wash companies in Los Angeles that profit from the city’s huge population of desperate migrants.

The police actions are pressuring the car wash companies to hire Americans at better wages and to invest in labor-saving automated car wash stations. An upgrade from manual labor to technology would reduce the need for the city’s taxpayers to help feed and house the illegal and underpaid workforce in the industry.

The left-wing Prospect reported some of the inspections:

Jasmine Delgado, a member of Westside Rapid Response, a community network that attempts to send witnesses to ICE workplace raids as they’re occurring, arrived at the car wash on Sunday just as ICE was throwing people into unmarked vans. The only ones left after the raid were children of one of the workers, who were working with their father on site. “It’s quick. They show up, grab people, whoever they can, and then leave,” she said. “They don’t want to make a scene, they don’t want to stay too long.

And from what I’m hearing they’re trying to make quotas.”

White-collar progressives and manual-labor unions are increasingly siding with illegal migrants and their market-cheating employers. So, the Prospect’s editor describes the removal of black-market labor as a “catastrophe … for families, communities, the local economy, and the fabric of the city.”

Twitter is providing many videos of the operations and the shuttered car wash sites, and of people protesting or blocking ICE:



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ICE pulling up to a car wash station in LA. Gettiing some arrests done!



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2:04 PM · Jun 15, 2025



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ICE raided Westchester Hand Car Wash near our office last week, arresting workers and even a fruit stand owner down the street. Today, Monday, normally very busy it’s closed. Locals do not support this. LAPD are regular patrons. #ICEProtests#ICERaids#lariots2025#lamayor



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1:34 PM · Jun 16, 2025

John Sandweg, who was in charge of ICE under President Barack Obama, told the Washington Post that ICE is under unprecedented pressure to raise deportation rates, and is going to “low-wage jobs where it’s likely you’re going to find people who are undocumented — that means car washes, Home Depot parking lots, anywhere you have low-skill, low-wage labor.”



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UPDATE ICE LOCATION ICE IS NOW RAIDING LA CAR WASHES WHAT THE ACTUAL ****?!? -Crenshaw imperial car wash -west Chester car wash -culver car wash -touch and glow car wash-magnolia car wash!!











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8:47 PM · Jun 10, 2025




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Bristol Car Wash in Santa Ana, California was raided by ICE. He’s told they took everyone, the location is closed

Jacks Carwash in Bell, California was raided by ICE, the workers were illegal. The business is closed2 California car washes raided both staffed with 100% illegals



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6:55 PM · Jun 22, 2025

ICE is also hitting car wash stations in other states, including Connecticut, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.

ICE’s pressure will shift more customers from companies to skilled legal experts who do custom work for better wages.

But the ICE pressure is also forcing U.S. companies to invest in more wage-boosting automation.

That automation trend is pushing operators in other states and countries to develop labor-saving, automatedcar wash services.



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Owner of car was in Torrance, California is furious that ICE just arrested his entire illegal immigrant workforce he was paying under the table and avoiding paying taxes and everything else a legitimate business must do.



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12:45 AM · Jun 23, 2025




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ICE raid at a car wash in Whittier, California, snags a bunch of illegals.



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1:04 AM · Jun 11, 2025

​The damaging impact of migration on technology, productivity, and wages is evident in the United Kingdom, where the massive wave of illegal migrants halved the number of automated car wash centers. In 2015, the Daily Mailreported:

[Petrol Retailers Association] chairman Brian Madderson said: ‘Over the last 10 years, this has almost killed off the mechanical rollover car wash. About 70 per cent of all retail washes are now done by hand and the great majority of these people are completely unregulated.

‘They’re using all kinds of horrible chemicals, particularly to clean alloy wheels, and there’s very little done to stop this stuff just being flushed into the local waterways.’

Figures from one car wash manufacturer indicated that the number of petrol filling stations has declined from about 14,000 to 8,600 since 2000.



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A Downey car wash owner is speaking out after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided her business. Surveillance cameras at Galaxy Auto Detail car wash in Downey captured the ICE raid on Wednesday.

The owner of the car wash says she was forced to shut her

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3:00 PM · Jun 13, 2025

The BBC reported in January:

Mohamed Hamza, 34, of Granville Road, Peterborough, hired the workers from Syria and Egypt to work at M&H Car Wash on Enterprise Way in Pinchbeck, near Spalding.

The business was fined £20,000 after the two workers, a man in his 20s and a man in his 30s, were discovered during an immigration enforcement visit in 2022.

In recent months, the U.K.’s far-left government has promised to enforce the laws, so restoring the economic incentive to use modern technology instead of low-caste migrants.

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