How Home Depot became a magnet for day laborers and a target for ICE
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Home Depot has a fraught, decades-long connection to immigrant day laborers.
Summer is the busiest time of the year for immigrant day laborers outside Home Depot, picking up jobs as roofers, painters and construction workers. But the usual crowd of both legal and undocumented workers has vanished from many Home Depot parking lots. Dozens of day laborers in recent months have been arrested outside various stores around Los Angeles, New York City and Baltimore, fueling national protests. Top White House official Stephen Miller directed ICE officials in late May to target day laborers at Home Depot and other businesses, the Wall Street Journal reported, part of the Trump administration’s deportation push. “Right now, I’m behind on my rent because I’m scared of getting detained at the corner of Home Depot or having an encounter with ICE,” one undocumented day laborer who has been in the United States for a decade told CNN in Spanish. This worker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of deportation, has stopped looking for jobs outside a Home Depot in East Windsor, New Jersey. “This is the most important season for us to work, and the fear is stopping us from going out.” It’s no accident that Home Depot is at the center of a volatile fight over immigration. The fifth largest US retail chain has a fraught, decades-long connection to day laborers, or jornaleros.
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