Overview
- This month, ICE agents have arrested dozens of day laborers at Home Depot sites in Los Angeles, including Westlake, Paramount and Huntington Park.
- In early June, ICE arrested at least a dozen workers outside Home Depot locations in Hempstead, Freeport and New Rochelle in the New York City suburbs.
- The Trump administration mobilized thousands of National Guard troops in Los Angeles to quell demonstrations over the parking lot raids.
- Lawyers and immigrant advocates report that detainees have been held without timely counsel, a claim the Department of Homeland Security disputes.
- Vendors who rely on Home Depot parking lots for work report income drops of more than two-thirds as both customers and day laborers stay away.