Menards: MAGA-friendly firm fires worker for filming 'brutal' DHS raid

[cbabe]

https://www.rawstory.com/dhs-raid-2674259973/

MAGA-friendly firm fires worker for filming 'brutal' DHS raid

Matthew Chapman
November 3, 2025 9:58AM ET

A security guard at a big-box home improvement store owned by a Trump-supporting billionaire filmed a "brutal" immigration raid, The Daily Beast reported — and then found himself out of a job.

Ricardo Mendez was positioned at the door of Menards — a chain of midwestern home-improvement stores whose billionaire owner, John Menard Jr., is a GOP megadonor — in the Chicago suburb of Cicero, Illinois, when agents deployed by DHS arrived on Tuesday afternoon," said the report. "Like so many in the city since 'Operation Midway Blitz' began in September, Mendez had been 'on the lookout' since federal immigration officers 'started taking over,' he told the Daily Beast."

In the footage filmed by the Puerto Rican security guard, DHS officers smashed out the windows of a pickup truck, dragged out a Hispanic man, cuffed him, and hauled him off in an "unmarked red vehicle." "After the man was detained, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in a separate unmarked blue Chevy Tahoe threatened to tear-gas anyone who intervened, Mendez says, before they all drove out of the lot as one ICE officer can be seen in his video flipping him the bird," the report continued.

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[live love laugh]

1. I need to tear up my Menards card. Shit.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Menard's is also against GAYs too.

That's why I won't shop there, being so homophobic. I won't shop somewhere that is against so many of my friends.

[Emile]

3. Looks like I will take my business to Lowe's from now on

[hlthe2b]

4. I suppose he has no recourse legally, but damn...

He can at least feel good about not letting this go undocumented.

[UpInArms]

5. Am done with menards

No more of my money for them … ever

[CousinIT]

6. He is Puerto Rican. Surely that also had nothing to do with why the MAGAt billionaire outfit

fired him.

Right?

[wcmagumba]

7. I will never ever shop at Menards

[hlthe2b]

8. Interesting. I hear Menards ads, but there are none in Denver or Colorado (that i know of), but in Cheyenne, Wyoming...

Now there is no predictability in that, is there?

Lowes it is. (Although I have to admit Home Depot in much of Colorado is really friendly and allows dogs--so there is that. )

[Botany]

9. Home Depot is very very MAGA friendly. The owner paid to support Jan. 6th shits.

If possible go to Lowe’s.

[hlthe2b]

10. I'm aware. That's why I mention the irony. If I were in the South, e.g., Atlanta, I'd never step in there...

[Johnny2X2X]

11. Menard's owner is a literal sociopath

Books have been written about his sociopathy and he's been confronted by it. He's an actual sociopath.

[Mister Ed]

12. It looks as though Menard's and I are parting ways, then.

And I've been a very frequent customer for decades.