Home Depot became a hotspot for day laborers and ICE raids

In summer, immigrant day laborers rallied en mass outside the Home Depot to grab the jobs as roofers, painters and construction workers. As it’s such a busy time of the year for them.

Legal as well as undocumented workers don’t see many Home Depot parking lots as a spot to gether. As usual, the crowd has altogether disappeared from there.

Plenty of day laborers got detained in recent months outside multiple stores, triggering extreme national protests across Los Angeles, New York City, and Baltimore. Accelerating the deportation efforts, Trump administration official Stephen Millar authorized ICE officials in late May to raid Home Depot and other businesses to arrest the day laborers, the Wall Street Journal reported.

At this moment, I can’t settle up with my rent because I’m afraid that ICE agents will apprehend me at the corner of the Home Depot, and when I encounter them, one undocumented day laborer who has been living in the country for a decade tell CNN in Spanish.

This undocumented laborer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, has quit picking up jobs at Home Depot in East Windsor, New Jersey. We deem summer as appropriate season to work, and the deportation threat is halting us from go out.

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