Home Depot tells Florida GOP to stop using its brand to promote immigration detentions The hardware retail company is the latest in a growing list of creatives and companies objecting to being used to promote anti-immigrant propaganda.

Aug. 18, 2025, 6:23 PM EDT

By Ja'han Jones

Hardware company Home Depot put the kibosh on Republicans’ using the company’s brand to promote a new facility to hold imprisoned immigrants.

With their attempts to market an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades as “Alligator Alcatraz,” Republicans have shown they’re invested in grooming Americans to accept — or even to playfully partake in — the cruelty of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown.

Florida Republicans were attempting something similar with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ announcement

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