PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Video obtained by Action News shows a raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a car wash in the Juniata Park section of Philadelphia.
The video showed ICE agents at Complete Autowash.
Immigrations and Customs officers took seven people into custody, most of whom had been in the country for more than a decade, according to the advocacy group New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia.
"You think you've made Philadelphia safer by doing that? I think that's extremely misguided," said Anuj Gupta, the CEO of the Welcoming Center, an organization founded in the city in 2003 to help immigrants with things like language and workforce training.
He said the raid invokes fear among immigrants in the city, and not only the undocumented.
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"We're talking about people that have come here through legal means and now they are in jeopardy of being penalized and potentially deported," said Gupta.
Just this week, ICE reported more than 3,000 arrests -- just shy of 1,000 on Sunday and Tuesday, and nearly 1,200 on Monday.
In Philadelphia, per a 2016 executive order signed by then-mayor Jim Kenney, police will not comply with immigration enforcement or detain individuals unless ICE has obtained a judicial warrant.
"ICE is working and doing what their function is but we continue to work in that posture," said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel.
Gupta says, for now, advocates must work to better educate people about their rights and highlight immigrants' positive contributions.
"What immigrants do in positive terms every day for our city and our country, and the vast majority of that is positive," noted Gupta.
Action News has confirmed that on Sunday, ICE visited Jumbo Meat Market located on Castor Avenue in the Northeast, but it's not clear if anyone was detained.
At Boricua 2, a Port Richmond Puerto Rican restaurant, owners say they were shocked last Friday when ICE agents arrived without a warrant. They did not allow agents to come inside
"They came in here and they wanted to check our restaurant. They came in here and they thought they were undocumented because it's a Puerto Rican restaurant," said the owners in a social media video.
Puerto Rico is a United States territory. Owners say they used this as a teaching moment and shared their thoughts on the restaurant's Instagram account.
Co-owner Robert Acevedo is a retired Philadelphia police officer.
"Just because they come in with badges doesn't mean you're obligated to let them go in the back and see anything," said Acevedo .
Action News reached out to ICE to obtain a list of locations targeted. We are still waiting to hear back.
While the Trump administration said it would focus on deporting immigrants without legal status who have committed violent offenses first, as raids and mass deportations have continued, administration officials have said those without criminal records have also been deported. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended what was happening at the second Trump administration's first White House press briefing on Tuesday.
"Every day, Americans are safer because of the violent criminals that President Trump's administration is removing from our communities," Leavitt said, adding that Trump "is focused on launching the largest mass deportation operation in American history of illegal criminals."
"And you are an individual, a foreign national, who illegally enters the United States of America, you are, by definition, a criminal," Leavitt said.
When asked during the briefing which immigrants the Trump administration considers to have a "criminal record," Leavitt said, "All of them because they illegally broke our nation's laws, and therefore they are criminals. As far as this administration goes. I know the last administration didn't see it that way, so it's a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal. But that's exactly what they are."
Administration officials have already said the raids could target places of employment, schools and churches.
ABC News contributed to this report.