Editor’s Note: The following newsletter was originally sent by NDLON on June 9th, 2025.
We’re writing to you with heavy hearts, but also with deep conviction.
What we are witnessing across Los Angeles — ICE raids, armored vehicles, masked agents terrorizing families — may feel like a distant storm to some. But for immigrant workers, for day laborers, for our neighbors, it is already here.
This moment demands more than watching. It demands that we show up for one another — in person, nonviolently, with courage, with love, and with urgency. If you are not at risk of deportation, we are asking you to consider taking action — today.
Here’s what you can do:
- Go to your local Home Depot, where immigrant day laborers are at extreme risk of harassment and arrest. The National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) is calling on the public to Adopt a Day Labor Corner. Choose a location convenient to you, where day laborers gather and commit to showing up regularly. Be present. Be consistent. Build relationships and offer protection.
Learn more, please join our
Adopt-a-Day-Labor-Corner Workshop
Friday, June 13
11 AM Pacific Time
Register here
After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation
email with the meeting link.
- We also need people to gather outside courthouses, where immigrants following the law are being seized and taken away.
- You can also go to construction and other job sites where day laborers and other immigrant workers gather.
Stand with our people. Be a witness. Offer your presence. Offer protection. Please! If you can safely be in the streets, please go with these things in mind:
- Document ICE actions — take photos, record video, collect names
- Avoid confrontations and de-escalate tension — our movement is nonviolent
If you can’t go into the streets, please consider doing this from home:
- Speak up and demand protection from your elected officials
- Donate to our Immigrant Defense Fund
Remember: Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo. Only the people save the people. That has always been true — and never more than now. We can and should be standing together in the face of injustice — peacefully, powerfully, with love and care. We don’t need to feed their violence — we need to build community.
Let our love be stronger than their hate.
Let our unity be louder than their fear.
Let our actions reflect who we really are.
With you, en la lucha,
Pablo Alvarado
Co-Executive Director
National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)
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