Federal immigration agents detain day laborers in a Pomona Home Depot parking lot, activists say
Federal immigration agents detained a group of day laborers on Tuesday morning in Pomona, activists said.
Claudia Bautista, the executive director with the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center, said the organization was notified at around 9:30 a.m. that immigration agents were at the local Home Depot.
“When we got there we realized it was not ICE but Border Patrol,” she said. “They took 15-20 day laborers who were only looking for work.”
“It is not a crime to look for