Posted on 11/25/2025 9:14:42 PM PST by xxqqzz
Anti-ICE protesters tried to freeze business at a Southern California Home Depot Saturday by gobbling up cheap ice scrapers and then returning them en masse to denounce immigration raids at the hardware chain.
The demonstration, known as a “buy-in,” clogged up registers at the store in Monrovia, when nearly a hundred activists snatched up the 17-cent ice scrapers, only to turn around and return them immediately.
Some of the demonstrators waved signs with the orange and white Home Dept logo reading “ICE out of The Home Depot,” “No Secret Police,” and “No to ICE,” according to video posted on Reddit.
A protester holding a sign that says "ICE OUT OF THE HOME DEPOT" inside a Home Depot store. Anti-ICE protesters staged a ‘buy-in’ involving purchasing 17-cent ice scrapers from Home Depot — only to return them en masse. Reddit/ExactlySorta
The protest came in response to claims that the company has allowed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to raid parking lots at the big-box chain, which for decades has been a hub for work-for-hire day laborers, many of whom are illegal immigrants.
Home Depot denied it was cooperating with the feds.
“We are not coordinating with ICE or Border Patrol, and we’re not involved in the operations. We aren’t notified that immigration enforcement activities are going to happen, and often, we don’t know operations have taken place until they’re over, George Lane, manager of corporate communications for Home Depot told the LA Times.
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Take them off the shelves. Or put up a sign. No returns, no refunds.
.71 cents.
no ICE operations at lowe’s?
So they punish a company that has nothing to do with deportations.
So typical.
Yeah, that’ll win friends and influence people. Idiots. All they’re doing is hurting the workaday people there. Not anyone else.
Why were the protesters trying to block hard-working immigrants from getting a days work?
And why do they hate lesbians so much?
Literal NPCs. The last guy apparently didn’t get the memo and looked at the actual product and saw it said putty knife, and had to be corrected that it was actually a “ice scraper“.
Why would a store in Southern California have so many ice scrapers in stock? I grew up in the north and the only thing I did with an ice scraper was scrape ice.
How does this impact ICE?
“Why would a store in Southern California have so many ice scrapers in stock?”
Hello? Have you seen how many mountain towns there are in socal at snow elevation? Half of the region is mountains
Bratty children don’t think about anyone but themselves when they decide to throw a tantrum, and that’s all that liberals are. Whether 8 or 80, they’re all mental children.
why to Home Depots in Southern California even have ice scrapers?
I’m going to Jamaica and I’m going to buy up all their ice scrapers.
They are close to the mountains.
I wonder why Home Depot didn’t stop it.
Blacklist anyone who was dumb enough to use a credit card.
I guess now that I ought to "up" my defiance by first purchasing ICE tickets, and then cancelling them, so as to foul up and overtax the system... well, a little.
I'm sure that the U.S. authorities will eventually take note of my courageous act of rebellion!
"Down with the Establishment!"
Regards,
Hello? I was born and raised in SoCal. You're talking out your butt.
The mountain towns are far away from Monrovia. They are more like villages than actual cities.
The largest, Big Bear, located 25 miles from Monrovia and only accessible by a two-lane, winding road, has a population of just over 5,000 people.
Not exactly what anyone would consider a thriving metropolis.
While Monrovia is nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, it's not exactly close.
The closest mountain town to Monrovia is Mt. Baldy is almost 28 miles up a 2-lane highway, but it's a tiny little village with a population of ~290.
Wrightwood, which is a larger village with a population of ~4,700, is almost 60 miles away.
Big Bear is almost 85 miles away from Monrovia.
I passed along incorrect information about Monrovia and Big Bear.
Big Bear is 25 miles from San Bernardino, but almost 85 miles from Monrovia.
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