Mayor Bass: ICE Raids Making it 'Difficult to Get Your Car Washed in L.A. Now'

“It’s difficult to get your car washed in Los Angeles now,” because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are rounding up illegal immigrants, Democrat L.A. Mayor Karen Bass complained Sunday.

“It’s difficult to get your car washed in Los Angeles now, because most of the car washes, the employees won’t come to work out of fear that a raid will take place,” the Los Angeles, California mayor grumbled in an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

“[T]hey’re just chasing random people through parking lots at Home Depots, going to car washes and rounding up people,” Bass claimed.

ICE raids are also making it harder to buy fruit off the streets from illegal aliens, Bass implied Sunday in a social media post, introducing a video clip from her interview:

“They’re going after people selling fruit and working at car washes. It’s unconstitutional and it must end.”

Asked about her objection to ICE agents wearing masks for safety reasons, Bass reiterated that “individual vendors selling fruit on the street” were being detained by armed agents in unmarked cars.

“I have a hard time believing that the woman selling pineapples on the corner is going to attack an ICE agent,” Mayor Bass told “Face the Nation.”

Bass warned of the ICE threat to immigrant fruit vendors yet again, objecting to Trump Administration Border Czar Tom Homan’s criteria for identifying illegal immigration suspects:

CBS Host Margaret Brennan: “Tom Homan has said physical description cannot be the sole factor for reasonable suspicion, but things like location, occupation, physical appearance add up, particularly if a person runs away, or if there's a tattoo or something. You don't seem to believe that.”

Mayor Bass: “Location, sitting at a, well, location, sitting at a bus stop, walking down the street, selling fruit? No, I do dispute that, absolutely.”

In a similar characterization of illegal immigrants, former President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, referred to them as maids, cooks and dish washers, during an interview published Monday.