Labor Day organizers protested at Home Depot, urging them to “graze the snow from their stores.”

About 100 people had one item on their list as they walked into a Home Depot in Monrovia on Saturday: a small ice scraper that cost less than a dollar.

They came back in line minutes later to retrieve the item. The action, known as Thenga-in, was part of a large demonstration at the home depot to pressure the company that “Erika Andiola, the political director of the National Day LEASHERER HOURDEPL,” said the political director.

Demonstrators moved into the area, some wearing wet aprons, similar to those worn by home depot workers, with the phrase “ice cream in the home depot.” Others used Orange Home Depot buckets as drums as they walked through the store.

“Whether the Corporation wants to admit it or not, the home depot has become the zero of the zero of this cruel, destructive disease that is happening in our country,” said Pablo Alvarado, co-managing director of Ndlovu.

George Lane, Home Depot’s Corporate Communications Manager, said in an email at times that “we are not in touch with Ice or the Border, and we do not know if the earthworks will happen, and often, we don’t know if the works will happen until they are finished.

“We are required to follow all Federal and local laws and regulations in every market in which we operate.”

Home depot employees did not interfere with the protesters and eventually closed one of the store’s entries. Organizers blocked vehicular access to the front of the store during a press conference following the march.

SJ Denning volunteers with East Pasadena Community Defense Corner, a group that runs patrols for ICE activity in the area, and hoped that Saturday’s demonstration would “create a little mischief” and increase awareness.

“It is not good to target our neighbors on the streets,” said the violation. “This is a moral moment, and we must meet it with courage, all of us.”

The effort was the cause of the death of Carlos Roberto Monterto Montoya Valdez, a Fusty man who was hit and killed by an SUV in Monrovia after fleeing immigration agents in mid-August.

The Department of Homeland Security once told MontOToya Valdez “it was not followed by any activity of the DHS Law.”

The death of Montoya Valdez was the death of the entire community,” said Michael Ocon, a member of the Monrovia school district Board.

“This story affects every single person who calls this county home,” she said.

The Buy-In’s purpose was to temporarily focus the store’s operations and demonstrate a financial contribution that builds the company — without putting in a rope, which Andiola said the public doesn’t want.

“Day laborers want people to go out and shop to find work,” said Andiola. “This is a way for us to influence their business and at the same time, give the message that they need to get Ice in their stores.”

For decades the home’s parking lots served as workplaces for day laborers, many of whom came from immigrants and showed up every morning. Many of these things have be the keystones on the performance of human migration.

In the parking lot and the street, near the 210 highway, members of Ndlon set up two altars, each with 24 white crosses, representing people who died this year or were arrested, including Montoya Valdez.

About a dozen pastors from Pasadena and Altadena attended the service, including Rev. Mayra Macedo-Nolan.

“Our community was devastated by the Eaton fire,” Macedo-Nolan said. “The reconstruction of our society will not happen without the work of the workers, and that is where they come to look for work.”