California: Day laborers seeking employment outside a Home Depot were arrested by Border Patrol

Pro-immigrant organizations have denounced the arrest of a group of day laborers looking for work in front of a Home Depot store in Pomona, California.According to witnesses and graphic material captured on site, agents carrying Border Patrol vests entered the parking lot during the morning hours, just as workers arrived in hopes of finding employment. Immigrants are arrested when looking for work at a Home Depot and polemics are generatedThe in…

Ten day laborers were arrested this Tuesday during an operation in Pomona, confirmed to Telemundo 52 Los Angeles the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). According to the statement, DHS agents “carried out an operation in Pomona against an undocumented immigrant with an arrest warrant in place.” However, by finding other undocumented immigrants in the Home Depot parking lot they proceeded to stop them. “During the operation, nine more und…