‘A terror inflicted on our communities’: why ICE is targeting car washes in LA

Andrea Gonzalez and Norma Fajardo of Clean Carwash Worker Center, an advocacy group, describe ICE's psychological warfare' as carwash workers are disappeared

In June, Donald Trump's administration turned Los Angeles into a testing ground for the tactics that have come to define its sweeping mass deportation agenda across the US - launching large scale, public arrests aimed at netting as many people as possible into a growing immigrant detention system.

Throughout the raids, one of the recurring targets of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents has been carwash workers.