US EditionHome Depot stores, long a hub for day laborers, now draw immigration agents out on raids
Federal raids at Southern California Home Depot stores have led to over 5,400 arrests since June, targeting undocumented day laborers amid ongoing immigration enforcement efforts.
- Home Depot parking lots have become prime targets for immigration agents to conduct raids and round up immigrant day laborers.
- Immigrant advocates have sued over the raids but the Supreme Court cleared the way for federal agents to continue conducting sweeping immigration operations in Los Angeles for now.
- Activists and day laborers have resorted to using whistles, megaphones, and two-way radios to warn each other about potential raids.
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Los Angeles Times
Independent EspañolWorkers, originally from Mexico, El Salvador and elsewhere, carry whistles to sound the alarm
In early June, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) launched a series of raids in California that led to the arrest of more than 8,000 migrants.Many of these arrests occurred at The Home Depot, where migrant day laborers gather. Home Depot, a space for day laborers Over the decades, the retail company has become a traditional meeting point for migrant day laborers, who usually gather in parking lots or in front of shops in sear…
Home Depot stores, long a hub for day laborers, now draw immigration agents out on raids - The Boston Globe
Home Depot stores in Southern California have long been an informal job-seeking hub for day laborers in the country both legally and illegally. Now the locations have become a prime target for immigration agents.
How this Home Depot in Southern California became a hotbed for ICE raids
At a Home Depot parking lot, a man patrols on a bicycle for federal immigration agents, toting a megaphone on his hip so he can blast a warning to day laborers waiting to land a landscaping or construction job.The workers from Mexico, El Salvador and elsewhere carry whistles to also sound the alarm, while activists swap details over two-way radios about whether cars whizzing by could be unmarked vehicles carrying officers preparing for a raid.Th…
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