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  • Raid at a Home Depot in Hollywood shatters an immigrant refuge

    06/20/2025 9:39:23 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 85 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | June 20, 2025 3 AM PT | Brittny Mejia and Rachel Uranga
    Emma De Paz woke up at 2 every morning for 25 years to make soup, roasted chicken and tamales to sell to work crews picking up their day’s supplies at the Home Depot. She joined other immigrant vendors lining the side streets under tents and over grills in a makeshift community that was something of a refuge for Latino immigrants in the Hollywood area. Abelino Perez Alvarez and his wife sold orange juice, soda and water. Day laborers scrolled through their phones as they waited outside the parking lot in hopes of getting work. Around 7:30 a.m. Thursday, the refuge...