By Barry Lank/ Eastsider LA
Originally published on Aug. 29, 2025
Plans to build a new Home Depot in Eagle Rock Plaza have triggered resistance from the L.A. city councilmember who represents that area.
Councilmember Ysabel Jurado issued a statement Friday opposing the plan, citing federal immigration raids on day laborers at Home Depot stores elsewhere in the city, including Cypress Park. She said the hardware and improvement store chain has not publicly addressed the arrests.
“When your name becomes associated with terror and you refuse to speak, you are complicit,” said Jurado. “Home Depot has chosen power and profit over the working people who sustain it.”
A spokesperson for Home Depot responded:
“We aren’t notified that ICE activities are going to happen, and in many cases, we don’t know that arrests have taken place until after they’re over,” Home Depot spokesperson Sarah McDonald. “We’re required to follow all federal and local rules and regulations in every market where we operate.”
Plans emerged last month to replace the former Macy’s building on Colorado Boulevard with a 128,266-square-foot Home Depot, complete with truck and equipment rentals, trailer and shed displays, and a garden center.
The company is in the early stages of the entitlement process on the property, McDonald said.
Federal immigration officers have been conducting sweeping raids on Home Depots throughout Los Angeles since June, including in Cypress Park and Westlake.
Jurado noted in her statement that ICE agents conducted their fourth warrantless raid on the Westlake location just a day before. Eight people were arrested near the CARECEN Day Labor Center next to the hardware superstore, according to ABC7.
Jurado added that the Eagle Rock Plaza has long been a gathering place for the Filipino community in Los Angeles.
