Posted on 12/19/2025 9:07:22 AM PST by algore
Noise machines installed by LA Home Depot ‘torture’ for day laborers, advocates say
Advocates call for removal of machines and demand that company speak out against ICE raids in parking lots Victoria Bekiempis Thu 18 Dec 2025 21.23 EST
A Home Depot in Los Angeles installed three high-pitch noise-emitting machines outside to deter day laborers from seeking work there, causing them to suffer headaches and nausea, advocates alleged at a press conference on Wednesday.
The Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California (Idepsca), an advocacy organization that helps day laborers, called for the removal of these machines from Home Depot’s Cypress Park location, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Advocates for day laborers also demanded that Home Depot speak out against ICE raids in store parking lots. Immigration enforcement agents have repeatedly targeted the Cypress Park location, which is located near one of Idepsca’s support hubs, the Times reported.
Maegan Ortiz, Idepsca’s executive director, alleged that Home Depot deployed these noise machines to drive day laborers from the parking lot.
“We have been here and remain open through global pandemics, providing services and creating community,” Ortiz said at the press conference. “We’re not going to let sound machines, gates and intimidation get rid of us. Day laborers are here to stay. IDEPSCA is here to stay. The immigrant community is here to stay.”
One day laborer said he now wears earplugs to block the noise while he waits for work. The man said the sound “penetrates your bones”.
“They chose to weaponize sound,” Los Angeles city councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez said at the news conference, in remarks she shared on Instagram. “Devices like these are used as torture against our people.”
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Play. Yoko Ono’s Greatest Hits - they’ll run for the hills.
How about something measured in calibers?
Torturous. Tortuous means long and harsh travel.
They better have a system of handling the payments and dealing with taxes. All this day labor shit is blatant tax evasion coupled with usually welfare fraud.
I am pissed I work essentially 2 days a week to pay my payroll taxes and these slobs are usually not.
Well, it’s kinda already come to that: look at the militarized border.
Which is a good thing.
As for Home Repo parking lots...that’s what local police are supposed to do: it’s private property. The idiot federal courts ruled that they had a right to be there as long as they don’t bug people, since the parking lots supposedly are open to the public. Reverse that, and they have no right to camp out.
HAVE THEY EVER APOLOGIZED?
WILL THEY EVER APOLOGIZE?
WILL they ever apologize for the millions killed in Aztec living sacrificial killings? Cutting out the still-beating hearts of victims?
“Play. Yoko Ono...”
Oh gosh no. There HAS to be something in the law that makes that illegal.
Yes, Yoko, with a splash of Barry Manilow!
Los Angeles city councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez said at the news conference, in remarks she shared on Instagram. “Devices like these are used as torture against our people.”
“our people,” meaning she represents Mexico, not the United States, as if that were a surprise.
“They chose to weaponize sound,”
Not the first time. Decades ago stores were using Classical Music to keep the Hippies out of their entrances.
It does not work on me as I like classical music.
Private property.
Feel free to leave.
Yes it will especially those with auditory nerve damage and Vestibular Disorders. I fall in the category. They start this BS at my Tennessee Home Depot I will be a long time customer turned ex-customer. This is not a solution. It's a very stupid idea and it targets everyone. Home Depot will see a sizeable drop in their customers and it will be their legitimate customers.
Day Worker Center = Magnet for illegals
Pay no taxes welfare free welfare free housing.............
Si America macho good
Then go home, back to whatever hell hole you invaded us from.
Haitians replaced the Spanish laborers practically overnight at the Home Depot in Lake Worth, FL. By the way, my Texan-born Mexican heritage boyfriend still calls anyone who is Latino ‘Spanish’ so it’s good enough for me.
And that is wrong because of what?
Exactly my thoughts. Something isn’t adding up. Why would you want to drive away people you want to round up?
F ‘em. Get legal or leave.
Our local Home Depot and Lowes as well has a project desk where they will line you up with a local contractor. I’ve used it and am quite satisfied. Is this just a SW Pennsylvania thing?
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