After an ICE raid, a teen took over his mother’s Pasadena tamale stand. The customers keep coming.

Chris Garcia, 14, is not afraid to work.

But he is afraid for his mother Carmen, who was at her tamales stand on the corner of Parke Street and Garfield Avenue in Pasadena on June 21 when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers picked up three of her customers.

“She’s afraid she’s going to get hit again, so I told her I’d help her,” Chris said.

On Friday, the Fourth of July, he was joined by a steady stream of new and regular customers who said the teenager’s...