A Los Angeles City Council member raged against Home Depot on Friday, accusing the hardware store chain of being “complicit” with raids on illegal immigrants and vowing to oppose the opening of a new location.

“Take your orange aprons somewhere else. Home Depot has no place in Eagle Rock,” Councilmember Ysabel Jurado fumed on Instagram.

Home Depot is planning to open a new superstore in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock, according to documents filed with the LA city planning department. The project would demolish a defunct Macy’s department store in Eagle Rock Plaza to make way for the new Home Depot location.

Jurado claimed that the hardware store chain was “complicit” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids at its locations due to the company’s refusal to spe

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