If you’ve ever been to a Home Depot in the Los Angeles area, you know that as you drive into the parking lot, you will be surrounded by men—never women—asking if you need help. On a busy day, you will be followed toward the front door and will be hit up again on the way out.
To be fair, I have had an incident with these day laborers or felt threatened, although they can get pretty insistent—especially according to my wife.
Turns out, surprise, surprise, that many of them are illegal aliens, and ICE has staged raids on outlets throughout the southland over the summer and picked up some pretty nasty characters.
Being a Democrat, LA City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado doesn’t like any efforts to repatriate illegal aliens or make our streets safer. In fact, channeling her inner Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who helped drive away an Amazon warehouse from Queens in 2019 at the cost of 25,000 jobs for New Yorkers, Jurado told Home Depot to take a hike:
Pack up your power tools.
— Councilmember Ysabel Jurado (@cd14losangeles) August 29, 2025
Home Depot has no place in Eagle Rock. 😤 pic.twitter.com/SGb24OldSg
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Rather than focus on getting jobs and stimulating the economy in the area she’s supposed to represent, Jurado would rather use her platform to make silly progressive talking points:
A Los Angeles City Council member raged against Home Depot on Friday, accusing the hardware store chain of being "complicit" with raids on illegal immigrants and vowing to oppose the opening of a new location.
"Take your orange aprons somewhere else. Home Depot has no place in Eagle Rock," Councilmember Ysabel Jurado fumed on Instagram.
Home Depot is planning to open a new superstore in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock, according to documents filed with the LA city planning department. The project would demolish a defunct Macy’s department store in Eagle Rock Plaza to make way for the new Home Depot location.
Jessica Tarlov: "They didn't vote for people to show up at Home Depots. They didn't vote for people to show up at immigration courts."
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 8, 2025
FALSE.
This is exactly what I voted for! I voted for MASS DEPORTATIONS of every illegal alienpic.twitter.com/3o8jHlD05C
The council dweeb railed against the company for not speaking out, while Home Depot countered that they are not informed of the raids in advance, do not request them, and are required to follow all “federal and local rules and regulations in every market where we operate."
How dare Border Patrol ruin the days of fine people like these guys?
NEW: Border Patrol tells @FoxNews records checks reveal that of the 11 illegal aliens they arrested in a raid at a Sacramento Home Depot on Thursday, five have a criminal history, of which three are convicted felons, including a fentanyl trafficker & a sex offender who fled from… pic.twitter.com/UVujanqZbm
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 20, 2025
NEW: Border Patrol tells @FoxNews records checks reveal that of the 11 illegal aliens they arrested in a raid at a Sacramento Home Depot on Thursday, five have a criminal history, of which three are convicted felons, including a fentanyl trafficker & a sex offender who fled from agents and broke into a nearby inhabited apartment & assaulted the occupant during the raid.
Like Gov. Gavin Newsom, like Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, like Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, like Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and so many other “progressive” Democrats, they would rather see our cities burn and descend further into chaos than betray their Marxist principles.
Instead of helping her community prosper, Jurado would rather die on the hill of leftist pablum. Home Depot would be smart to simply ignore her.
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