Video Shows Masked Federal Agents Chase After Car Wash Workers In Long Beach: Report

LONG BEACH, CA — A Long Beach car wash is currently closed down after federal agents raided the business Sunday morning, according to a report by the Long Beach Watchdog.

Video obtained by the Long Beach Watchdog shows federal agents raiding the Andres Car Wash in Cal Heights on Sunday.

The video shows the agents chasing down workers, one of whom makes a desperate attempt to flee by trying to crawl through a hole in a fence. Another federal agent then chases a worker through the car wash parking lot.

At least nine people were taken by federal agents between raids at the Andres Car Wash and Coast Hand Car Wash on Sunday, according to the report.

“We don’t have enough employees to open,” one Andres worker who asked to stay anonymous told the Watchdog, adding that remaining employees are scared to come to work because agents have been known to return to the same location in the days after a raid. “We don’t know when we’re gonna be back open.”

Raids have continued in much of the Southland, at times growing intense and on at least one occasion, ending deadly.

Last week, federal agents made national headlines after firing at a moving vehicle in Southern California, an act that federal authorities claimed was self-defense.

A day laborer believed to be fleeing from immigration agents in Monrovia died Thursday after running onto a freeway.

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