Tell State Senator Wiener: Hold Home Depot Accountable For ICE Raids at Their Stores (SB 1103)
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Call Script
My name is __________. I live in district 11, and I’m a member of Indivisible SF.
I’m asking Senator Weiner to vote YES on SB 1103, the REPAIR Act. We need to hold Home Depot accountable for allowing ICE to raid their stores, where vulnerable day laborers gather. This bill is a critical step in getting ICE out of our communities.
Background
This bill requires large home improvement retailers in California to publicly report immigration enforcement activity occurring on their premises, and to disclose their surveillance data-sharing practices with federal immigration authorities.
Large home improvement retailer parking lots have long served as informal hiring sites, where day laborers gather each morning seeking work from homeowners and contractors in need of labor, typically for one-time projects both large and small. The day labor workforce predominantly consists of immigrant Latino workers, a majority of whom are undocumented, which makes them especially susceptible to immigration enforcement activity.
As we have all witnessed in the past year, federal immigration authorities have increasingly concentrated enforcement efforts at large home improvement retailers, particularly in southern California, leading to more frequent and aggressive raids. It is a human rights crisis happening on the property of these large home improvement retailers.
SB 1103 requires large home improvement retailers to report on any immigration enforcement activity that occurs on their premises. This will increase accountability and transparency from these retailers regarding their interactions with immigration authorities.
Here are slides from NDLON, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, about the bill. There’s also a petition you can sign.