A popular food truck in Eagle Rock was momentarily abandoned Saturday after employees were sent running, fearing a possible immigration raid nearby.<\/p>\n
An employee of the taco truck said the workers fled after spotting a suspicious vehicle and receiving a tip about immigration officials in the area.<\/p>\n
The business was left unattended with warm plates, drinks and cash still inside the register.<\/p>\n
“We only saw the car and that’s all. Before we could see them, we left,” said Miguel Romero, a cook at the food truck. “We are here out of necessity and well, nothing else to do but hide.”<\/p>\n
Residents say the truck was bustling just hours before, until word spread of federal agents nearby.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt could be anyone’s family. They’re just trying to make a living. It breaks your heart,” said Ron Davis, a witness.<\/p>\n
The food truck employees are among the many communities put on edge due to the ongoing immigration enforcement operations across Southern California.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can’t imagine the terror that you must feel if you leave your house like you have a target,” said Catie Laffoon, who lives in Eagle Rock. \u201cIt’s heartbreaking. This is all over LA right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The food truck shut down its operations hours after the scare.<\/p>\n
“It’s getting complicated because we can’t work properly,” said Romero.<\/p>\n
NBCLA has reached out to ICE and DHS but has not confirmed if there were any immigration enforcement operations in Eagle Rock on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A popular food truck in Eagle Rock was momentarily abandoned Saturday after employees were sent running, fearing a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,21480,409,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-23775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-eagle-rock","11":"tag-immigration","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114765154435976813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}