Officials in Anaheim issued a warning to the public on Monday following a spate of immigration raids over the weekend that they called “the most significant and disruptive federal enforcement” the city has seen in weeks.
Anaheim has seen targeted enforcement and “larger activity” since mid-July, when a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking federal agents from using racial profiling to carry out random immigration arrests across the region, officials said.
Around midday on Saturday, agents in three or four black SUVs and a white van arrived at the Euclid Car Wash, deploying what appeared to be a smoke canister before detaining one person. The individual was a bystander, not an employee at the car wash, according to the city.
Video of the incident posted on social