Posted on 08/09/2025 11:41:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Federal agents detained day laborers outside of a Home Depot in Van Nuys during two raids Friday morning, raising questions over whether their actions may violate a court order that bans agents from using racial profiling to carry out indiscriminate immigration arrests.
The operations took place around 7:35 a.m. and then again at 11:50 a.m. outside the Home Depot on Roscoe Boulevard, according to Maegan Ortiz, executive director of Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California, which runs a resource center for day laborers directly next to the store.
The Department of Homeland Security, which includes Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
But U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovino told Fox News on Friday that federal agents always abide by the law during enforcement operations.
“In Los Angeles right now — today, as a matter of fact — we have agents out on the streets right now making apprehensions, as you and I are speaking,” he said. “They’re doing that again, legally, ethically and morally.”
A number of unmarked white vans started circling the parking lot and immigration agents began “grabbing people first and then asking people for ID” said Ortiz, adding that her organization has confirmed 10 people were taken.
“[The agents] came straight for the day labor center,” Ortiz said. “It is very clear they are targeting day laborers and they are targeting the organization.”
Ortiz said immigration agents conducted another raid near a Home Depot in Cypress Park on Saturday. Details were not immediately available.
On July 11, a U.S. district judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking federal agents in Southern and Central California from targeting people based on their race, language, vocation or location without reasonable suspicion that they are in...
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Nope. Going where the criminals are. They just happen to be mexicans.
They need to start going INSIDE the stores. I’m still hearing entirely too much Spanish when I go to Home Depot.
I hope they show up at my local Home Depot soon.
I’ve seen as many as 30 “day laborers” there at a time. The taco truck there does a great business and is always busy.
Critics say the dumbest things. They are doing way too many drugs trying to save their illegal alien illegal voters. They are really counting on Joe Pedo’s wetback freeloaders to push them over to another steal during the mid-terms. I believe that is when the shootin’ Civil War II is going to start. Time to cull the American herd of non-Americans.
day laborers? No, illegal aliens.
How about “critics say ICE should ramp up their efforts”?
Last time I checked, many Spanish-surnamed individuals and many Spanish-specking individuals have some roots in EUROPEAN Spain. The Spanish in Spain are not a race, but a language group.
Central and South Americans who speak Spanish in Spanish-speaking nations are not a race.
But to a racist Leftist, everything is about race.
"Critics" AKA Leftist Dem Liars, that is...
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“No federal judge has the authority to dictate immigration policy — that authority rests with Congress and the President,” said Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman. “Enforcement operations require careful planning and execution; skills far beyond the purview or jurisdiction of any judge. We expect this gross overstep of judicial authority to be corrected on appeal.”
ICE is doing their JOB..and the Dems can go suck a lemon, I understand their frustration, getting rid of their voters like that, its a darn shame/sarc..now they have less people to count for the census and less congressional seats, sucks to be them
Home Depot and Lowes are the big ones..go outside and you see them all standing there waiting to be picked up
So?
Maegan Ortiz needs to take her douche bag full of Mehican laws back to where she brought if from. We Americans have our own laws. Sorry Maegy. Our laws don’t let people break our laws just because they look like a Messican. Nobody is above the law due to their skin color here.
Hispanic is not a race. Words have meaning. When not used properly they lose their meaning. And people who do not know better run around as ignorant people spouting off nonsense.
Was at Home Depot in Spokane a few days ago. Nothing but nice polite Americans. Happy to be so far from the border. Though some weird looking guys have apparently come through from Canada. Saw a few downtown.
You don't have any "privacy" when crossing the border.
According to the TSA, you don't even have any "privacy" in an airport.
A court order not to enforce the law?
Go For Three!
Third Time Is A Charm
I love it that they are hammering Gavin Land. Not the Love Boat captain.
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