NO ONE Expects the DHS Inquisition!

In the most hilarious way possible, that’s pretty much what the scene resembled yesterday in the parking lot of a Home Depot near the now notorious-for-illegal-immigrants-congregating MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.

Several nondescript rental panel trucks, like a million others on the road, pulled into the store’s parking lot. And, in a scene out of Monty Python, where the door bursts open to red-robed inquisitioners…

 

 

…the back door of the trucks’ cargo space simultaneously rolled up to reveal?

US Border Patrol agents bounding off the tailgate.

Breaking: DHS arrives in Penske trucks at a Home Depot in McArthur Park area of LA for early morning immigration enforcement. The area was filled with migrants who scattered. DHS says MS 13 has a chokehold on this area, which is one reason they’re carrying out the highly… pic.twitter.com/hTskuM9Q4l

— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) August 6, 2025

While illegal aliens, who queue up every morning looking for daywork in the parking lot, desperately scattered boogity boogity to the sixes and winds, trying to evade the pursuing officers.

NO ONE WAS EXPECTING THAT!

They’re going to have to be a little quicker on their feet because, much like the red-robed Inquisitors, CBP also has a near fanatical devotion to their work.

Especially now that they’re at long last allowed to execute the duties of their office.

BREAKING: federal immigration operation underway right now at Home
Depot near McArthur Park in LA, near site where Karen Bass showed up last month during immigration enforcement. pic.twitter.com/UUkJeIAKe9

— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) August 6, 2025

That one raid netted sixteen illegal individuals in a single parking lot, and the collective heartburn of the progressives in the city, which reignited when they got word of it. The Cabbage Patch looking Communist mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, still spazzing over the nerve of the CBP sweep through what’s now fondly known MethArthur Park, was doing verbal backflips over the box truck tricksies.

…Immigrant advocates and city leaders had hoped such sweeps had stopped with a federal judge’s order, affirmed by a U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel, that immigration officials cannot racially profile people or use roving patrols to target immigrants.

“We are all trying to look into … exactly what happened,” said Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. “But from the video and from the stills, it looks like the exact same thing that we were seeing before.”

…When a reporter told Bass at a news conference that Border Patrol said it was targeting gang members, she replied sarcastically. “Yeah, and you can see that when somebody is sitting at a Home Depot.”

Bass said later she wants City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto’s office to determine whether the tactics used by federal agents during the Home Depot operation violated the restraining order.

“Just being a Home Depot day laborer, to me, is not probable cause,” she said. “So the question I would have is, what were they possibly observing at Home Depot? They were observing people looking for a job for one day.”

It seems that noses were especially out of joint because there had been a lull in enforcement. The momentary quiet only fooled those who wanted to believe they’d carried the day. But if one paid attention to the Trump administration officials when they spoke, they would have known they were only taking a breather and reassessing their next options, as well as having to consider the judge’s quite obvious overreach.

Not to mention, when things quiet down, the illegals feel bold enough to take up their bad habits.

…After weeks of relative quiet, the immigration raid on a Home Depot in Westlake early Wednesday morning revived fears of widespread sweeps in Los Angeles as U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovino warned, “We’re not leaving.”

The acting US Attorney for the Central District in California clarified that ‘not leaving’ further for anyone who was confused or felt it left wiggle room.

For those who thought immigration enforcement had stopped in Southern California, think again. The enforcement of federal law is not negotiable, and there are no sanctuaries from the reach of the federal government. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/jkZgG1WOdt

— Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) August 6, 2025

BUT OUR JUDGE SAID YOU CAN’T DO DIS!!!

Upheld in that TRO: it’s explicitly unlawful to stop or detain people based only on generalizations about how they look, how they speak, or where they are / where they work. It applies to Ventura, LA, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties.

— United Farm Workers (@UFWupdates) August 6, 2025

They are doing it.

🚨 🇺🇸 Surprise… We’re back 🔥 And the illegals scattered.
DHS launched Operation Trojan Horse at a Home Depot near MacArthur Park LA. 16 arrests made early this morning after agents rolled up in a Penske truck. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/1wQeTH9MJY

— April Color (@ColorApril) August 6, 2025

It’s not like DHS hasn’t given them options – they could have taken the cash and left.

Illegals arrested for deportation by ICE on Monday at the Home Depot in Cypress Park of Los Angeles, CA.

Around half a dozen illegals were taken during the morning raid.

The illegals should’ve just taken the $1,000 offer by DHS to self-deport using the CBP Home app. pic.twitter.com/qrWSRh3Mab

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) July 1, 2025

According to the LA Times, there was a simultaneous raid at another Home Depot parking lot, and the combined effect of enforcing immigration law is causing much angst among illegals, those who utilize their cheap and available services, and immigrant advocates alike.

What a pity, huh?

…“It was so fast. It happened in a matter of 10 minutes,” said Xochilt Soza, a mover who picks up work at the Home Depot. She saw several white vans drive into the lot, along with the Penske truck, and about 20 to 30 agents fan out of the vehicles. Agents arrested Angel, a man whom she knew for years and who was also looking for work.

“It’s so sad,” she said, shaking her head in disbelief.

“I am not well,” said another worker, who did not want to give his name. He said he was devastated by the raids but that he wasn’t going to leave the parking lot, because he still needed the work.

One worker who escaped was still shaken by the experience an hour later. He identified himself as Raul and said he saw at least eight people get arrested.

“That’s one of their cars,” he said pointing to a silver Toyota sedan.

The Home Depot had been one of the scenes of the first raids in June that kicked off more than a month of operations in Southern California in which civil rights lawyers say federal agents indiscriminately arrested immigrants. The raids gutted businesses, spread fear and tore apart families.

…Maegan Ortiz, the executive director of the nonprofit group Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California, known as IDEPSCA, said it began receiving word about an immigration operation at the Home Depot in Hollywood around 6:50 a.m. She said at least two people were arrested.

…“What does this mean for the TRO [temporary restraining order]? There’s a lot of anxiety both from workers and from organizational staff,” she said.

Another place suffering acute anxiety over the unceasing immigration round-ups is Mexico, where the rate of the much-needed remittances sent back to the auld country from these illegal laborers in Home Depot parking lots, corner stores, fields, or factories makes up a goodly portion of the country’s GDP. June’s number just came in a couple of days ago, and it’s fallen again. Analysts are blaming increased immigration enforcement activity.

The amount of money Mexico received in remittances fell 16.2% annually in June, the largest year-over-year decline for any month in more than a decade.

Analysts partially attributed the sharp decline to fear of going out to work among Mexicans in the United States, where the U.S. government is pursuing an aggressive deportation agenda.

The vast majority of remittances to Mexico are sent from the United States, where millions of Mexicans — both documented and undocumented — live and work.

The Bank of Mexico (Banxico) reported on Friday that income from remittances totaled US $5.201 billion in June, down from $6.207 billion in the same month of 2024.

The 16.2% year-over-year decline was the biggest annual drop in remittances to Mexico for any month since September 2012. Considering only the month of June, it was the largest annual decrease on record.

As tied in to the Mexican government as Mayor Cabbage Patch appears to be, I am sure she is hearing it from those panicking communists right now, grilling her on what she plans to do to call the dogs off and get the pesos flowing again.

Good luck with that. The push to clear these people out of the country is relentless, and it is everywhere.

Prime example right here: our local Mobile, Alabama, FBI office with a ‘what was happening in the area yesterday‘ report.

Over the course of August 5th and 6th, immigration enforcement actions in Baldwin County and Mobile County resulted in the arrest of 24 individuals.Those arrested had prior convictions for forgery, assault, DUI, and immigration offenses. pic.twitter.com/wnLM4Rzeif

— FBI Mobile (@FBIMobileAL) August 6, 2025

Our local Escambia County Sheriff even has a video out complaining that DHS is now trying to poach officers with their $50K signing bonuses, etc., that the county trained with. It’s really unbelievable how hard Homan and Co. are going at this.

And NO ONE expected DHS to be THIS good, this quickly.

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