Trump, immigration and aggressive crackdown
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The White House told ICE to target Home Depot. That has disrupted the company’s symbiotic relationship with the day laborers outside its stores.
How one chaotic demonstration at a Paramount Home Depot spurred Trump to send in the National Guard. What really happened?
Undocumented day laborers have been gathering at the fringes of America’s biggest home-improvement retailer for decades. Federal agents are turning up there, too.
Immigration raids at Home Depot locations in Los Angeles led to detentions and protests as the Trump administration pursues mass deportation goals of 3,000 ICE arrests daily
ICE, racing to fulfill President Donald Trump’s goal to increase deportations, is increasingly targeting work sites for immigration sweeps. The escalation is creating a chilling effect on the businesses that rely on immigrant labor and the workers themselves,
Parking lots outside Home Depot stores across the country that were once teeming with day laborers angling for work are now eerily quiet — a stark sign of how the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is reshaping the informal labor market.
An immigration sweep at the Santa Ana Home Depot was one of several reported in Southern California over the past week. The raids led to protests, some of which turned violent in downtown Los Angeles. Law enforcement officers have used flash-bang stun grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas on the crowds.
Stephen Miller explicitly ordered ICE to target Home Depot parking lots to arrest undocumented day laborers, a report alleges. The White House deputy chief of staff gave the order in late May, gloating in a meeting that he could leave ICE’s D.
With migrant communities already living in fear amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, ICE raids in downtown Los Angeles sparked days of protests.
Workers who witnessed the ICE raid outside a Los Angeles Home Depot say officers arbitrarily detained migrants. The sweep was one of several that sparked protests.
Republican leaders capitalized Tuesday on the demonstrations in Los Angeles, where people are protesting Trump’s immigration raids at Home Depot and other places, to make the case for swift passage of their sprawling 1,