Some Pomona residents were joined by activists as they demanded the release of more than a dozen day laborers who were seen being taken into custody by federal agents outside of a Home Depot on Tuesday.

Federal immigration agents detained a group of day laborers on Tuesday morning, April 23, in Pomona, activists and a county supervisor said. Claudia Bautista, the executive director with the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center, said the organization was notified at around 9:30 a.m. that immigration agents were at the Home Depot on Towne Avenue.

A federal raid at a Home Depot store in Pomona has sparked concern as families and community members said a group of day laborers were taken into custody on Tuesday. Immigrant rights advocates held a demonstration outside the store,