ICE Detains Day Laborers Outside LA County Home Depot

Undocumented workers still look for jobs in Pomona after immigration raid

Three days after federal immigration agents detained day laborers at a Home Depot in Pomona, undocumented immigrants say their need for work still outweighs the dangers of being caught up in another raid. “Yes, I feel safe, but it’s unexpected. At any moment, we could be taken back,” said Juan Carlos, 20, who has been looking for work outside the store for five years. Like other day laborers interviewed for this story, he declined to give his la…

Southeast Asian Immigrants in California Face Arrest, Deportation After Routine ICE Check-ins

In Southern California, the Department of Homeland Security says its agents arrested 10 people at a raid on day laborers gathered outside a Home Depot store in Pomona on Tuesday morning. This comes as advocates are raising alarm over the targeting of Southeast Asian immigrants in Los Angeles and Orange County. In the months since Trump returned to office, ICE has detained a growing number of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese immigrants — even th…

Border Patrol performs raid outside of Home Depot

(CNN, KYMA/KECY) - Immigration activists are demanding answers following a border patrol raid on Tuesday in Pomona, California. Activists said that day laborers were seemingly targeted outside of a Home Depot parking lot where workers are known to gather around looking for work. More than a dozen men were reportedly taken into custody. Pomona's Day Labor Center said that they are trying to figure out where these men were taken and exactly why. H…

ICE Detains Day Laborers Outside LA County Home Depot

ICE Detains Day Laborers Outside LA County Home Depot - Los Angeles, CA - "When I started seeing the scene, I started crying," one worker said. "We are human beings...here to maintain our families."

Pro-immigrant organizations have denounced the arrest of a group of day laborers looking for work in front of a Home Depot store in Pomona, California.According to witnesses and graphic material captured on site, agents carrying Border Patrol vests entered the parking lot during the morning hours, just as workers arrived in hopes of finding employment. Immigrants are arrested when looking for work at a Home Depot and polemics are generatedThe in…

Ten day laborers were arrested this Tuesday during an operation in Pomona, confirmed to Telemundo 52 Los Angeles the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). According to the statement, DHS agents “carried out an operation in Pomona against an undocumented immigrant with an arrest warrant in place.” However, by finding other undocumented immigrants in the Home Depot parking lot they proceeded to stop them. “During the operation, nine more und…