{"id":464983,"date":"2026-09-15T23:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464983\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T23:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:56:25","slug":"ice-raid-hotspot-home-depot-removed-as-sponsor-of-l-a-s-official-mexican-independence-day-celebration-l-a-taco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464983\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE Raid Hotspot Home Depot Removed as Sponsor of L.A.&#8217;s Official Mexican Independence Day Celebration ~ L.A. TACO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the roving immigration raids began in 2025, some of the first places to be consistently hit with brutal force by ICE were locations of <a href=\"https:\/\/lataco.com\/the-two-faces-of-the-home-depot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Home Depot<\/a>, among other sites frequented by day laborers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That corporation\u2019s retail locations have remained a major focus of raids and targeted enforcement actions, even leading to the establishment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMJBahnh9Ui\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">community defense hubs<\/a> that specifically patrol Home Depot parking lots and other hotspots for ICE and Border Patrol and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DN9EDh-Ek-h\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">provide<\/a> mutual aid.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended<\/p>\n<p>The Border Patrol agents working out of <a href=\"https:\/\/lataco.com\/ice-is-staging-on-terminal-island-where-japanese-americans-were-once-abducted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Terminal Island<\/a> conducted some of these raids across Southern California cities, from Santa Ana to the San Fernando Valley, including the infamous \u201cTrojan Horse\u201d raid in which Border Patrol jumped out of a Penske truck at Home Depot\u2019s Wilshire location in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>There was even a fatality during one of these parking lot raids, when <a href=\"https:\/\/lataco.com\/monrovia-man-killed-freeway-ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdes<\/a> was killed by the driver of a moving vehicle as he attempted to flee from ICE agents who were detaining people at a Home Depot in Monrovia.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the roving immigration raids began in 2025, some of the first places to be consistently hit with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-464983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}