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Factory car park is empty and Home Depot store is eerily quiet amid social media claims illegal immigrants are staying away amid Donald Trump's crackdown
Daily Mail UK ^ | January 27, 2025 | Natasha Anderson

Posted on 01/27/2025 10:10:37 AM PST by Morgana

Illegal migrants fearing deportation are said to be in hiding, turning usually crowded factories, warehouses and grocery stores into ghost towns.

President Donald Trump has order federal agents to at least 1,200 to 1,500 illegal aliens each day as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown.

Scared undocumented migrants began hunkering down after Trump took office for the second time last week, with dozens failing to turn up to work.

Only 10 out of the usually 40 to 50 migrants workers attended their shifts at a factory in Joliet, Illinois last week, The Chicago Tribune reported, as six federal agencies swept the Greater Chicago area for 'potentially dangerous criminal aliens'.

Locals claim a Home Depot parking lot that is normally packed with day laborers seeking work was 'eerily quiet' with just a men standing around.

Sunday mass at Chicago's St. Agnes of Bohemia Catholic Church was also unusually empty, parishioners claim, likely because the Trump Administration relaxed rules governing enforcement actions at 'sensitive' locations such as schools, churches and workplaces.

Social media is flooding with reports of empty factory parking lots, doctor's office waiting rooms, grocers and big box stores, such as Walmart, in wake of Trump's mass deportation efforts.

Immigration officials arrested nearly 1,000 illegal migrants on Sunday alone as the White House praised the federal agents who are 'working tirelessly to protect our communities'.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported making a total of 593 arrests on Friday and 286 arrests on Saturday. In the 2024 federal fiscal year, it averaged around 310 per day, according to agency data.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: aliens; homedepot; illegals; invasion; labor; parkinglot
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity
"Now, let's go after the employers in federal court."

And take 30-40 Americans off of the unemployment rolls..

21 posted on 01/27/2025 10:40:05 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: Texas Eagle

I needed some pipe cut and threaded and no one could be found. As I stood there I noticed that they had written the password for the keypad next to it so I just started cutting and threading it myself. Hilarity ensued.


22 posted on 01/27/2025 10:52:20 AM PST by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

BINGO!!!


23 posted on 01/27/2025 10:54:35 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

And next we will read headlines about how this is all killing the joy in the economy. Give it time. Got to break a few fifty-cent eggs.


24 posted on 01/27/2025 10:55:50 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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To: Clay Moore

That’s a good way to get help, too. Thanks for the tip.


25 posted on 01/27/2025 10:57:25 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves, and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Morgana

What about the Marijuana groves here in Newscum’s Commiefornia? I’m assuming they’re still fully staffed? See?, there’s a bright side to everything if you’ll just take a breath and look.


26 posted on 01/27/2025 10:59:59 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves, and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: enumerated
How many times can the word “amid” be used in one headline?

I think the limit is three times. Then you have to say "amidst."

27 posted on 01/27/2025 11:06:34 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Texas Eagle
Agreed. Also, Oxfordian: “whilst”. I think I spelled that right.

While we're on the subject, don't forget "beloved."

28 posted on 01/27/2025 11:08:18 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Texas Eagle

Forsooth, thou dost protest too much!


29 posted on 01/27/2025 11:13:02 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! Thereon)
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To: Morgana

People fail to mention the fact that people were always able to come in the legal way.

I do not feel sorry for them. I feel sorry for us that we have been neglected by our own country in order to give those here illegally what should have been spent on American citizens who are the people forced to fund this illegal invasion.

No more free phones, food, healthcare, housing, cash. Americans don’t even get that.


30 posted on 01/27/2025 11:21:17 AM PST by dforest
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To: Mouton

Yes, I believe I can also remember that. Employers should have to prove they are not hiring illegls.


31 posted on 01/27/2025 11:23:13 AM PST by dforest
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To: Morgana

Hopefully they’re all already headed towards the border to self deport.


32 posted on 01/27/2025 11:23:49 AM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: Morgana
..has order federal agents to at least 1,200 to 1,500 illegal aliens each day..

What kind of morons write this crap? Do they not have editors in that country?

33 posted on 01/27/2025 11:24:10 AM PST by LouAvul (Rom 8:9b: if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. )
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To: milagro

I perceive you are very wise, Sir Knight. Will you join me in my quest for The Grail?


34 posted on 01/27/2025 11:27:36 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves, and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Morgana

What kind of construction goes on mid-winter in the Windy City?


35 posted on 01/27/2025 11:37:31 AM PST by skr (1 Peter 1:15 - But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation)
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To: Morgana

There is a Home Depot in Happy Valley, OR, where all the products’ Spanish language side is facing out, guys are selling oranges by the bag in the parking lot, latinas are peddling tamales out of their trunk, and most customers appear unable to speak english.

I go to Oregon City Home Depot so I can feel like I’m in America.


36 posted on 01/27/2025 11:38:29 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Call Traitor General Milley back into service, bust him to private, courtmartial, convict, hang.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Drive out the Home Depot parking lot, roll down your window and scream “La Migra!” in terror.

Watch them run!


37 posted on 01/27/2025 11:40:39 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Call Traitor General Milley back into service, bust him to private, courtmartial, convict, hang.)
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To: Persevero

I DOUBT THEY WERE “ASSETS” IN THEIR ORIGINAL COUNTRY.


38 posted on 01/27/2025 11:42:49 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Morgana

These are good signs.

America is for the citizens and immigrants who come here legally. If you have to hide and skip work because you are afraid of being deported then perhaps it is time to self-deport while you still have the ability to control the material decisions involved in that process.

The media is trying to make us feel sorry for them. I don’t. Come here legally and have nothing to fear.

In the words of our amazing Vice President “I don’t really care Margaret!”

Adios!


39 posted on 01/27/2025 12:08:22 PM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: Texas Eagle

I go to HD if I know exactly what I need to get.

I go to the local Ace Hardware if I need help.


40 posted on 01/27/2025 12:15:12 PM PST by Texas resident (AMF to BHO)
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