ICE reportedly targeting businesses and restaurants in DC

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Source: ABC News

May 6, 2025, 11:32 PM


Immigration and Customs Enforcement allegedly conducted raids targeting businesses in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. A coalition of activists had warned delivery drivers and restaurants of the planned enforcement one day prior. "I have heard those reports, I've been getting them all morning. I am disturbed by them," D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters Tuesday. "It appears that ICE is at restaurants or even in neighborhoods, and it doesn't look like they're targeting criminals. It is disrupting."

She also emphasized that the Metropolitan Police Department was not involved. George Escobar, chief of programs and services at CASA, an organization geared toward improving quality of life for working-class Americans, told ABC News by phone on Tuesday that the organization regularly receives tips about planned raids -- but this one was different. "This one, to be honest, alarmed us a little bit, because it was really specific," Escobar told ABC News.

The organization has run a 24-hour tip hotline since the first Trump administration. "We're experienced. We don't get alarmed by, like, you know, any old threat, because, you know, they're frequent, right? And they come in all different, all different types of forms," he said. However, in this instance, CASA was warned that ICE would be using President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at the "beautification" of the U.S. capital to justify the raids, Escobar said.

"We received notice about a specific kind of operation on how they were going to be conducted: what the pretense of maybe entering some of these small businesses were going to be, the fact that they were looking specifically at food businesses and possibly delivery workers," he explained. ABC News reached out to the Department of Homeland Security and ICE for comment but has not yet received a response.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/ice-reportedly-targeting-businesses-restaurants-dc/story?id=121539713

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. The evil of this administration knows no bounds of decency or morality.

Disgusting.

[IronLionZion]

2. Are MAGA voters applying for these jobs?

It was "nobody wants to work anymore" during the last president.

Now it's "they're stealing our jobs" BS again.

[dutch777]

6. Ha ha ha! Like many businesses especially restaurants have extra employees they can lose and still make it.

When I lived in WA state and there was some hew and cry about all the supposedly illegal immigrants picking fruit and vegetables and some enhanced level of enforcement by ICE threatened against them, many growers set up programs to train and hire local HS kids, the homeless and others seeking work. It was a dismal failure as so few wanted to even consider it. Of the few that did most made it only a day or two before quitting as they couldn't stand the backbreaking work in the hot sun and the wages were so low.

[Gore1FL]

3. Put up a notice that members of ICE are not allowed on property without a warrant. Then trespass them. nt

[Prairie Gates]

4. Keep fucking with the people that make your food

Dumbasses.

[Bluetus]

5. Of course, it is entirely coincidental that nearly all of the raids have been in Blue areas.

This article maps the early raids.
https://www.newsweek.com/map-ice-illegal-immigration-raids-trump-administration-2020613

I saw one in Oklahoma City, which wouldn't serve any electoral purpose. I saw one in Bloomington IN, which is a blus area of a red state. Likewise in Miami. Otherwise, just about everything else is targeting blue states.

[IronLionZion]

8. Screwing local economies in blue cities

[milestogo]

7. DC is going to be a ghost town.

[IronLionZion]

9. Lots of people are moving out

my neighbor who is a realtor claims it's mostly MAGA types selling their homes here. This is anecdotal of course.

[Initech]

10. ICE is completely and absolutely abusing their power.

A whole lot of this wretched agency - especially criminal psychopath Tom Homan - need to see some very long prison sentences if we ever get out of this. Fuck them all to hell.