Home Depot is Embarrassing
As migrants are chased into traffic and slammed to the pavement, Home Depot insists it doesn’t coordinate with ICE. Communities aren’t buying it.
WASHINGTON — You go to Home Depot to buy nails, a two-by-four, maybe a gallon of paint. But in the parking lot, under that big orange sign, America gets built by the people who never go inside. Men and women with tool belts and paint-splattered jeans stand around waiting for a day’s work that’ll pay in cash. They fix the roofs after wildfires, rebuild schools after storms, patch up the drywall after some kid puts his fist through it.
And that’s where the government goes hunting.
In Los Angeles’s Westlake neighborhood, federal agents came in June like extras in a bad cop show—masks on, trucks blocking exits. They grabbed everyone: a fruit vendor, a roofer, even a U.S. citizen, a PhD student who happened to be filming. He got slammed to the pavement for his trouble.
Weeks later came “Operation Trojan Horse.” Border Patrol rolled up to another Home Depot in a rented Penske …