Overview

• In Los Angeles this week, ICE agents in unmarked vans detained an estimated 25 people at a Home Depot parking lot during a coordinated enforcement sweep.
• Migrant workers describe hiding in trash bins and under wood planks to avoid capture yet continue to gather at Home Depot sites driven by the need to support families back home.
• White House advisor Stephen Miller ordered ICE bosses to meet daily arrest targets as part of President Trump’s campaign promise to carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history.
• Demonstrations and rioting in downtown Los Angeles and other Southern California areas prompted the Trump administration to call up thousands of National Guard troops and deploy Marines and led a federal judge to halt expedited removals of several detainees on constitutional grounds.
• Despite Home Depot’s strict 'no solicitation' policy, undocumented day laborers contributed nearly $90 billion to federal revenues in 2023 by paying taxes on off-the-books wages.