Protests against the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security have intensified nationwide, and now, the focus of activists is to continue the boycott against Home Depot and Target, which they accuse of being complicit with the federal government in the detention, arrest, and deportation of immigrants.

“If Target and Home Depot want “Our money should support our values ????of diversity, equity, and inclusion for all," Carlos Rodriguez, organizing director of LA Voice, the main organization that led the protest in Hollywood, where religious leaders also deplored that ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot activist Renee Nicole Good three times in the face, may never be brought to justice for the murder. "Target and Home Depot's actions are turning a blind eye to the rights that the current administration has been attacking, both for marginalized communities and for our immigrant neighbors," Padilla added. She emphasized that both companies are "complicit in authoritarianism." “There have been dozens of raids, particularly at Target, and despite losing millions and millions of dollars, they refuse to reverse their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies,” declared Yesi Padilla, a member of LA Voice. “They refuse to reinstate DEI policies that helped people have a fair shot at success in their lives.”

Over the weekend, thousands of Americans took to the streets for marches, demonstrations, and vigils to protest the recent escalation of violence by ICE agents: the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good and the rubber bullet wound to the face of a young man by DHS agents following a violent protest at the Santa Ana Civic Center.

Sunday's demonstration took place between the Target store on Sunset Boulevard and the Home Depot on St. Andrews Place.

At both locations, activists distributed New Year's resolution cards and collected signatures pledging to boycott Target and Home Depot.

“At the beginning of 2025, Target significantly cut its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives,” the card reads. “We deserve to shop at companies that uphold our values ??of fairness and abundance, not those that collude with authoritarianism.” In fact,They invited people they met in the parking lots to do their shopping at Walgreens, Marshalls, and Ralphs stores. The boycott against Target and Home Depot was initiated by representatives of African American churches and has spread to include Latinos, Asians, and other Americans, forming a multiracial and multifaith community of more than 70 churches and religious communities in Los Angeles County, representing some 4,000 individuals and families, in solidarity with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON). “Let's ground the work we are doing in our faith,” said Christian pastor Najuma Smith, in front of the Target store, which was closely watched by several security guards. “We know that our faith is our strength.”

Smith lamented that Americans are currently living in mourning and sadness.

“We mourn the lost lives, precious lives, made in the image of God; taken by a system that has forgotten compassion,” the nun said, inviting the dozens of protesters to pray for the shattered families, the traumatized communities, the immigrants and neighbors living in fear, and for a nation struggling with the weight of its own violence.

This psychological Violence also led to the death of Guatemalan farmworker Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdes, who was run over and killed on Highway 210 in Monrovia in August 2025. The immigrant was fleeing in terror from an immigration raid in a Home Depot parking lot. While there are no official figures on arrests of day laborers nationwide, protesters estimated that since the start of the Trump administration's mass deportation offensive, approximately 700 immigrants have been "hunted down" and subjected to brutality and excessive use of force when caught asking for work at Home Depot stores: 37 of them in July 2025 and another 16 in the so-called "Operation Trojan Horse" at a Home Depot store in Van Nuys. Meanwhile, in light of recent news that Home Depot stores are using high-frequency sound devices to scare away temporary workers, organizers emphasized the urgency of a response from Home Depot. Evelyn Fornes, senior manager of public affairs for Home Depot, said they are not notified of the The company does not have advance notice of immigration enforcement activities, nor does it participate in such [ICE] operations.

“We do not coordinate with ICE or the Border Patrol. Legally, we cannot interfere with federal enforcement agencies, which includes preventing them from accessing our stores and parking lots.”

Target's Brian Cornell did not respond by press time to a question about whether they have authorized ICE agents to enter private property and make arrests without a warrant.

Multimillion-dollar losses at Target

According to a December 2025 Forbes report,The ongoing boycotts against Target have significantly damaged the department store chain's profit margin, with revenue falling 1.7% through the third quarter to $74.3 billion and net income dropping 11% to $3 billion. “I've been living in the United States for 15 years, and it's getting a little difficult to make ends meet with my four children.”

Both Castaneda and his compatriot Pedro Rodriguez, originally from Xelaju, agreed that they no longer approach Home Depot stores with confidence when applying for jobs.

“How sad!” “How terrible!” were Rodriguez's expressions.

“Our struggle is about the collaboration of major companies [Target and Home Depot] with the fascist government and their impact on communities of color and global communities,” Anusha Mhar, a community leader with LA Voice, told La Opinion. “It is necessary to educate people and take action to counter corporate oppression.”

Immunity for the Killer Agent?

Mark Landsman, a Los Angeles-based documentary filmmaker, refuted the idea that the ICE agent involved in the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good has “absolute immunity,” as claimed by Vice President JD Vance.

“That guy is protected by absolute immunity. He was doing his job,” Vance asserted, further fueling the controversy over whether Minnesota state authorities could investigate or prosecute the federal agent.

“That's incorrect,” Landsman argued. "An ICE agent does not inherently have immunity from the law. He can't just indiscriminately pull out a gun and shoot an American citizen in the head. That's completely illegal, and there's no justification for it. He was wrong. She was backing away. The video shows that." So this is a profound injustice against an American citizen.”

Landsman said that Renee Nicole Wood could be anyone in the United States.

“She was murdered, and that is a serious injustice against basic and fundamental rights.”

She said, and was emphatic in stating that those who deny the execution of the 37-year-old woman are using “an authoritarian tactic to instill fear in people and make them question the rights they inherently have as Americans.”

What is happening in the United States?

“One of the reasons we are protesting is to reclaim the foundations of our democracy, to ensure a separation of powers, and to have an investigation into what happened,” commented Rabbi Suzy Stone. “Because every single democratic principle is being trampled on in the United States right now, and we, as people of faith, as people with a voice, should be proud of this tradition and allow ourselves to demonstrate peacefully,which is also what was happening in Minneapolis.”

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