CHICAGO (WLS) -- It was a hectic day Thursday with reports of ICE arrests taking place throughout the city, including at two Home Depot stores. Immigration advocates said agents are increasingly targeting big box hardware stores where day laborers set up looking for work.

It is not clear how many people were picked up during the raid at a Home Depot on the Southwest Side. A security guard said agents were just grabbing people in and outside the parking lot. Among them was a local street vendor.

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It was 7:52 a.m. when cellphone video taken by a Citizen app user shows a large number of immigration enforcement agents descending on the parking lot of a Home Depot at 47th and Western in Back of the Yards.

"ICE targeting hardware stores

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