Federal immigration enforcement indiscriminately targeted day laborers and street vendors at the Van Nuys Home Depot twice today.
The first raid took place at 7:30 a.m. when about seven vehicles filled with masked men wearing HSI (Homeland Security Investigations) and United States Border Patrol tactical gear began grabbing day laborers and street vendors without question and without presenting a warrant, according to witnesses at the scene.
Maegan Ortiz is the executive director of the Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA), a nonprofit organization that operates the Day Laborers Community Job Center in the parking lot of the Van Nuys Home Depot…