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Aug 1, 2025 Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdés (decedent) was killed fleeing an ICE raid at a Home Depot in California Tier 1 · Primary Civil Rights and Dissent
A death resulting from flight during a workplace immigration raid illustrates lethal consequences of expanded enforcement targeting day-laborer gathering sites.
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- Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdés killed fleeing ICE raid at Home Depot in California — Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdés, 52, a Guatemalan national, was killed in August after fleeing an ICE raid at a Home Depot in Monrovia, California, approximately 20 miles northeast of Los Angeles. He died on the freeway while attempting to escape federal agents. The Home Depot location has been a traditional gathering place for day laborers and was deliberately targeted by the Trump administration for ICE operations.
- Carlos Roberto Montoya Valdez killed after fleeing ICE sweep near Home Depot — In August 2025, after an immigration enforcement sweep near a Home Depot in Monrovia, California, Carlos Roberto Montoya Valdez, a 52-year-old Guatemalan day laborer, fled in fear and was struck and killed on the 210 Freeway. The Department of Homeland Security later denied that its agents were actively pursuing him at that moment, but local witnesses and organizers say the enforcement operation triggered the panic that sent him running. The incident prompted the National Day Laborer Organizing Network to organize the ice-scraper buy-and-return protest at the same Home Depot location.
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Week 28 – 2025-07-26–2025-08-01
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