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Ongoing ICE Raids Disrupt Day Laborer Hubs at Los Angeles and New York Home Depots

Advocates say detained workers are being denied timely access to legal counsel

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Outside of the Home Depot in Freeport, Nassau County, where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents lately have been busy.
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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.