Demonstrators used a new and symbolic measure to denounce the ongoing immigration actions across Los Angeles County over the weekend at a Home Depot store in Monrovia.
The activists each purchased an ice scraper for just 17 cents at the store before getting back in line to return the item. The act clogged customer service lines, something they say is a political act urging Home Depot to keep federal agents out of their stores.
"We want to scrape ICE from our communities," said Palmira Figueroa, the communications director for the National Day Laborers Organizing Network. "It's kind of symbolic, right, to use an ice scraper. Buy it and try to collapse their system for a moment, or for some time, with the group of people that are witnessing and are willing to stay, to stand up for the huma

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