Trump administration to scale back aspects of federal control of DC police department – as it happened

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Washington DC's only Home Depot was busy with contractors and customers on Thursday morning - but the Hispanic day laborers who usually gather and wait for work under the parking lot's sparse trees were nowhere to be found.

Two days earlier, masked federal agents swarmed the area and made several arrests, which were photographed by bystanders and posted on social media. Juwan Brooks, a store employee who witnessed the raid, said the agents grabbed anyone who appeared Hispanic.