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Of the five individual plaintiffs, three were arrested at a bus stop while waiting to be picked up for a job, one — a U.S. citizen — at an Orange County car wash and one at an auto yard where he says he was manhandled by agents even after explaining that he is a U.S. citizen.

Jorge Hernandez Viramontes, one of the two U.S. citizens in the lawsuit, was working at a car wash on June 18, as he has for around 10 years, when immigration agents who didn’t identify themselves arrived and began interrogating people about their identity and immigration status, the lawsuit alleges.

They dropped him at the car wash, with no apology.

Shortly after, the car wash was raided again.

In Bell, chaos erupted when masked men arrived at a car wash and began detaining its workers, sparking a confrontation with residents and immigration rights advocates before they were forced to hastily drive over curbs and street islands to escape.