Wild scene as protesters trap federal agents in taco shop parking lot, multiple arrests made

EXCLUSIVE: TUCSON, Ariz. — Protesters swarmed a Mexican edifice successful Tucson, Arizona, Friday morning, concisely locking a radical of national agents successful a gated parking batch arsenic they were executing a hunt warrant successful transportation with a sprawling taxation and migration fraud investigation.

It happened extracurricular a Taco Giro edifice connected North Grande Avenue successful Tucson. A SWAT squad responded aft protesters surrounded the feds and allegedly utilized a motorcycle fastener to artifact the exit with agents inside.

"Special agents and officers from ICE Homeland Security Investigations, IRS Criminal Investigation, and different national partners, are executing 16 hunt warrants successful confederate Arizona arsenic portion of a years-long probe into migration and taxation violations," an ICE spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "Multiple individuals are successful custody."

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Protesters basal down a gross they allegedly locked utilizing a motorcycle fastener which they utilized to artifact national agents leaving the determination wherever they had conscionable conducted a raid connected a edifice successful Tucson, Arizona, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. Agents were extracurricular the business, Taco Giro, arsenic portion of an probe connected suspicion of migration and taxation evasion. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

More accusation is expected to beryllium released soon, helium added.

Authorities arrived astatine the edifice astir 9 a.m. It wasn't unfastened yet. Between 100 and 200 protesters began gathering extracurricular an hr later, chanting "Go location ICE" and different slogans, immoderate including profanity.

A close-up of a motorcycle fastener which was being utilized by protesters to fastener a gross wherever national agents had conducted a raid connected a edifice successful Tucson, Arizona, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. Agents were extracurricular the business, Taco Giro, arsenic portion of an probe connected suspicion of migration and taxation evasion. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

Many of them were carrying identical signs, reading, "illegal arrests necessitate a hood." One protester was seen shoving a digit successful an agent's face, lasting down a alloy barricade.

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Law enforcement officers woody with protesters aft national agents behaviour a raid connected a edifice successful Tucson, Arizona, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. The business, Taco Giro, is being investigated connected suspicion of migration and taxation evasion. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

Among them was a much confrontational radical of astir a dozen. Shortly aft 11, idiosyncratic threw a vessel astatine an ICE vehicle.

Another placed a motorcycle fastener astir the gate, locking the agents inside.

Law enforcement officers woody with protesters aft national agents conducted a raid connected a edifice successful Tucson, Arizona, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

Authorities deployed flash bangs and capsicum spray and arrested astatine slightest 2 radical successful the mob successful beforehand of a photographer.

After authorities chopped the fastener disconnected with a saw, video shows fume successful the aerial arsenic they filed retired of the parking batch successful instrumentality enforcement vehicles. Protesters were heard jeering arsenic they left.

A wide presumption of Taco Giro connected Grand Avenue, Tucson, Arizona, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. The concern is being investigated connected suspicion of migration and taxation evasion. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

Earlier, the agents were besides seen entering a location astir the corner, conscionable steps away.

Photos taken determination amusement aggregate men successful handcuffs, being loaded into the backmost of an SUV.

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ICE said the raids were portion of a sprawling probe into migration and taxation fraud.