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

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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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