Federal agents detained day laborers outside of a Home Depot in Van Nuys during two raids Friday morning, raising questions over whether their actions may violate a court order that bans agents from using racial profiling to carry out indiscriminate immigration arrests.

The operations took place around 7:35 a.m. and then again at 11:50 a.m. outside the Home Depot on Roscoe Boulevard, according to Maegan Ortiz, executive director of Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California, which runs a resource center for day laborers directly next to the store.

The Department of Homeland Security, which includes Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.

But U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovi

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