Disappeared in America – ICE Out of Home Depot Vigil

On November 1, we will hold a rally outside of Home Depot in honor of all the workers who have been kidnapped by ICE on Home Depot properties. Join us in a day of action and make your voice heard. Tell Home Depot: ICE Out!

All over the country, ICE agents are targeting immigrants in and around Home Depot, attacking and terrorizing workers, customers, and surrounding communities. The raids are terrifying, chaotic and sometimes deadly. In August in Monrovia, near Los Angeles, Carlos Roberto Montoya, a day laborer from Guatemala, was killed as he fled a Home Depot raid. He ran onto the freeway and was hit by a car.

These atrocities are happening on Home Depot’s watch, on its properties, with its silence. The Home Depot company has not resisted or condemned these raids. It has not publicly demanded that the Administration stop assaulting and abducting people on and outside its properties. As far as we know, it hasn’t even asked.

With its silence and inaction, Home Depot has become ICE’s passive partner. With every new raid, Home Depot is helping ICE meet its arrest quotas, fill private prisons, and spread fear in our communities.

Please sign up if you plan to join us (https://www.mobilize.us/disappearedinamerica/event/864319/) so we can estimate the potential size of our rally. We advise that you don’t park in the Home Depot parking lot.

This rally is supported by Disappeared in America. Disappeared In America is a project hosted by Public Citizen, National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON), The Workers Circle and Detention Watch Network.

A core principle behind all of our events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.