Parking lots outside Home Depot stores across the country that were once teeming with day laborers angling for work are now eerily quiet — a stark sign of how the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is reshaping the informal labor market.

Continued federal immigration enforcement actions have disrupted lives across greater Los Angeles, including a middle school graduation where teachers and families were left hunkering down in fear.

While the retailer denies any involvement in immigration operations, its parking lots have become a focal point of both ICE enforcement and public backlash.

Stephen Miller explicitly ordered ICE to target Home Depot parking lots to arrest undocumented day laborers, a report alleges. The White House deputy chief of staff gave the order in late May, gloating in a meeting that he could leave ICE’s D.

Immigration raids at Home Depot locations in Los Angeles led to detentions and protests as the Trump administration pursues mass deportation goals of 3,000 ICE arrests daily

An immigration sweep at the Santa Ana Home Depot was one of several reported in Southern California over the past week. The raids led to protests, some of which turned violent in downtown Los Angeles. Law enforcement officers have used flash-bang stun grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas on the crowds.

Reports of ICE raids being carried out at Home Depot parking lots in Los Angeles sparked widespread protests across the city, and NBC News' Jacob Soboroff reports from one of the locations where an enforcement operation reportedly took place.

Some blame state’s sanctuary laws for why federal agents are keeping Los Angeles law enforcement at arm’s length.

ICE agents also intimidated attendees at Miles Avenue Elementary graduation on Monday, June 9 in Huntington Park, officials say.

Hundreds of Baltimore-area immigrant advocates rallied Wednesday to protest what they say is the detention of at least 16 people in the city and county by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in the last three weeks.

For them, picking up work at Home Depot is their only source of income, and some work as little as one day a week.  While Valencia and other day laborers sought wages, other community members in Paramount and Compton,