XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.computer.workshop, talk.politics.guns
From: noreply@dirge.harmsk.com
On 20 Dec 2025, Billy Bob Magee posted
some news:XnsB3BB74DEE7A78rrrrrr@62.164.182.21:
> What a super idea!
> And naturally the illegal migrants are complaining that their rights
> are being infringed upon.
> Who gives a shit about their rights?
> Depot should add in some speakers blasting Barry Manilow at high
> volume as well.
> Hopefully other Home Depot stores follow suit.
>
> to-harass-day-laborers-advocates-claim/>
>
> 'Immigrants’ rights advocates are sounding the alarm about noise
> machines placed high above the parking lot on light poles at a Home
> Depot in Cypress Park.
>
> The machines put out a constant high-pitched beeping noise that has
> day laborers, like Jose De La Torre, who goes there in hopes of
> finding work, reaching for earplugs to try and block the piercing
> sounds out.
>
> “It’s bad, it’s bad,” De La Torre told KTLA. “It’s annoying. You
have
> to walk away, always use your earplugs. Otherwise, people get
> headaches.”
>
> De La Torre is not alone. Many of the other day laborers who frequent
> the parking lot started using earplugs soon after the machines were
> installed last month, though they only block out so much of the noise,
> he said.
>
> “What’s the purpose?” he added. “I guess they probably don’t like
the
> laborers here.”
>
> Maegan Ortiz with the Institute of Popular Education of SoCal, a day
> laborer advocacy organization with an office on the lot, agrees. She
> and others believe the anti-loitering machines are meant to scare
> workers off.
>
> “We are obviously concerned about the health and safety of our members
> who use the day labor center on a daily basis,” she told KTLA. “As far
> as we’re concerned, this is an attempt to harass day laborers to get
> rid of them.”
>
> An immigration enforcement raid carried out by ICE at the Cypress Park
> Home Depot in summer of 2025. (KTLA)
> Anti-loitering noise machines draw criticism from labor advocacy
> groups. (KTLA)
> Anti-loitering noise machines draw criticism from labor advocacy
> groups. (IDEPSCA)
> Anti-loitering noise machines draw criticism from labor advocacy
> groups. (KTLA)
> An RV seen illegally parked in a Home Depot parking lot. (KTLA)
> An immigration enforcement raid carried out by ICE at the Cypress Park
> Home Depot in summer of 2025. (KTLA)
> Anti-loitering noise machines draw criticism from labor advocacy
> groups. (KTLA)
>
> Anti-loitering noise machines draw criticism from labor advocacy
> groups. (KTLA)
> Ortiz said they’re concerned that Home Depot has been working with
> Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents amid enforcement operations
> and have repeatedly asked the company about it.
>
> There have been numerous ICE raids at Home Depots across the Southland
> and one that took place at the Cypress Park store over the summer.
>
> Stabbing, robbery at Westfield Topanga Mall leaves victim hospitalized
> Home Depot said they do not work with ICE and have launched several
> initiatives to keep their stores safe. In a statement to KTLA, the
> company stated the Cypress Park location is unique and the noise
> machines are intended to deter illegal overnight parking.
>
> “To conflate this issue with immigration enforcement or to say that we
> are cooperating with immigration enforcement activities is just
> false,” the statement continued. “We are not informed when these
> activities are going to happen, and we’re in no way involved in the
> operations.”
>
> De La Torre said the company’s statement made sense to him, but added
> that he wished there was another way to solve the problem'
There is, go back to whence you came, don't return.
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