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Immigration raids repeatedly reached Home Depot parking lots
Day laborers have long gathered near some Home Depot locations looking for short-term construction and landscaping work. During intensified immigration enforcement, those same parking lots became recurring sites of arrests and raids.
Home Depot says it does not coordinate with ICE, CBP, or other federal agencies and is not notified before enforcement activity occurs.
Context: The boycott criticism is not that Home Depot has admitted coordinating raids. It is that advocates want the company to do more when enforcement repeatedly takes place on or around its property.
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The DEI section disappeared without a major announcement
Retail Brew reported in May 2025 that Home Depot had removed a section of its corporate website titled “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion” and replaced it with a page called “WeAreTHD.”
The previous page had described a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture as a competitive advantage. The replacement page retained employee stories but omitted the explicit DEI language.
Context: Home Depot said it remained proud of a welcoming culture and did not say the website change meant the company had abandoned every diversity-related practice.
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Flock license-plate readers created a surveillance fight
Home Depot publicly acknowledges using license-plate readers in its parking lots for theft prevention and customer and associate safety. The company says it does not grant federal law enforcement direct access to those readers.
Investors nevertheless asked Home Depot to review its relationship with Flock Safety and disclose how data collected at stores and parking lots could be accessed through local law-enforcement relationships or the wider Flock network.
Context: The concern is about indirect access and governance risk, not a claim that Home Depot has admitted directly giving ICE its ALPR data.
