Overview

• ICE officers posing as a van driver offered Spanish-language work opportunities to migrants gathered outside a Home Depot parking lot in Los Angeles.
• Masked agents jumped from a rented Penske moving van to arrest 16 individuals in what Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino labeled “Operation Trojanisches Pferd.”
• Fox News journalists embedded inside the van filmed the operation under an invitation from ICE.
• Detainees were locked inside the same rented van before undergoing immigration checks and transfer to ICE custody.
• The raid underscores the Trump administration’s intensified use of covert, suspicionless tactics in nationwide immigration enforcement.