Day laborers protest noise machines installed at Home Depot

Kevin R. Johnson

19 Dec 2025 — 1 min read

The Trump administration has targeted day laborer pick up points in Southern California for immigration enforcement operations. Day laborers have called on Home Depot to respond. The Los Angeles Times reports on responses unlike the ones hoped for.

In November, "Home Depot installed three machines in the parking lot that emit a high-pitched tone." The noise is a "piercing sound."

The Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA), a nonprofit that supports day laborers, recently held a news conference at a Home Depot, "calling for the company to remove the machines and vocalize opposition to the ICE raids taking place in its parking lots, part of a growing number of protests targeting corporate cooperation with immigration enforcement."

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