Border patrol agents jump out of rental truck and ambush people at LA Home Depot

<p>In ‘Operation Trojan Horse’, masked officers in unmarked vehicle arrest 16 people, despite court order halting raids</p><p>US border patrol agents carried out a raid outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles on Wednesday, with officers jumping out of an unmarked rental truck and chasing and <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-06/more-raids-home-depot-in-macarthur-park-raided">arresting</a> more than a dozen people.</p><p>Videos of the operation, and federal officials’ statements boasting about the detentions, have raised questions about whether the US government was complying with a federal court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/12/trump-administration-ordered-to-halt-indiscriminate-immigration-stops-in-california-over-racial-profiling-concerns">order</a> halting indiscriminate raids in the region due to evidence of racial profiling. That ruling, <a href="https://abc7.com/post/ice-raids-los-angeles-plaintiffs-speak-recent-court-ruling-southern-california-immigration/17451238/">upheld</a> last week by an appeals court, followed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/los-angeles-immigration-raids-montebello">reports</a> of Latino US citizens <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/us-citizens-jailed-ice-los-angeles">getting swept up</a> in LA raids and accounts of undocumented people being <a href="https://www.aclusocal.org/en/press-releases/workers-family-members-and-community-groups-sue-dhs-unlawful-arrest-and-detention">targeted</a> based on their appearance and whether they spoke Spanish.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/ice-border-patrol-home-depot-los-angeles">Continue reading...</a>