Home Depot maintains silence on ICE raids in its parking lots
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
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Home Depot has remained largely silent as ICE agents repeatedly conduct raids targeting day laborers in and around its store parking lots nationwide. In Los Angeles, agents jumped from a rental truck to detain workers; in August 2025, a 52-year-old Guatemalan man died after being hit by a car while fleeing a raid near a Monrovia, California store. During earnings calls, executives said nothing about raids and received no analyst questions. The company's only statement: "We aren't notified when ICE activity is going to happen, and we aren't involved in the operations." Protesters have organized boycotts and vigils.
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“Day laborers have emerged as on-demand workforce at Home Depot as a result of these huge trends,” said Nik Theodore, an urban policy professor at the University of Illinois Chicago and one of the country’s leading researchers on day laborers. But “Home Depot is part of this story. They’re not just innocent bystanders. The success of the company has helped create these conditions.”
Home Depot is an important player in this issue and should have a clearer, stronger position on aggressive enforcement raids happening at its stores.