Sacramento County residents among the 12 arrested at Home Depot, immigration group confirms
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- ICE agents arrested 12 people at a South Sacramento Home Depot parking lot.
- Sacramento County pledged $50,000 for emergency immigration legal services.
- Immigrant group says Sacramento County residents were most of those arrested.
Among the 12 individuals arrested by federal immigrant agents in South Sacramento, most are residents of Sacramento County, according to an immigration rights group working with the county on providing legal services.
Last week, immigration officers arrested 12 people, including one U.S. citizen, at a Home Depot parking lot on Florin Road. Marcus Tang, the executive director of the California Immigration Project, said the group has yet to meet with everyone who was detained. In an interview with the Bee, he said a majority lived in Sacramento County, but could not provide an exact number on Monday afternoon.
The office of Sacramento County Supervisor Phil Serna issued a new release Monday that said they would fund $50,000 toward the Sacramento Family Unity, Education and Legal Network for legal services across Sacramento County.
Serna’s office stated that the fund proposal was filed by the California Immigration Project for FUEL and will be used to create stipends for a rapid response network with volunteer attorneys who offer emergency consultations and legal support. These services will be offered to those taken at Sacramento’s ICE processing center.
“Offering platitudes about the value of our immigrant population is too easy and convenient,” Serna said in the news release. “Other elected leaders at every level need to step up and secure more resources to protect and defend those unfairly targeted by the Trump Administration.”
An immigration law experts previously told the Bee that Thursday’s arrests were an “egregious violation” of residents’ rights and that they were “racially profiled.”
The county added that these services, which were once only for city of Sacramento residents, educate residents on their rights and provide resources for immigrant families.
Supervisor Patrick Kennedy, who represents District 2 where Thursday’s arrests took place, said his office will “continue to support the community organizations that are working on the ground with our immigrant neighbors” in a social media post Friday morning. Kennedy was unable to comment on Friday afternoon after the statement was made because he is “still out of office on vacation,” according to his office’s staff.
On Friday, the U.S. Border Patrol El Centro Sector stated that there were 70 agents who arrived in Sacramento last week. Border Patrol later stated they were “maybe” still in Sacramento, but that they are currently “somewhere in California.”
This story was originally published July 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM.
