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BumRushDaShow

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Wed Aug 6, 2025, 05:26 PM Aug 2025

Penske Calls Out DHS for Using Its Rental Trucks During Immigration Raids in LA: We 'Did Not Authorize This' [View all]

Source: MEDIAite

Aug 6th, 2025, 2:54 pm


Penske Truck Rental released a statement Wednesday condemning the Department of Homeland Security for using its truck in an immigration raid. On Wednesday morning, DHS agents traveled to a Home Depot in the McArthur Park area of Los Angeles. The purpose of the visit, according to Fox News reporter Matt Finn, was to conduct “early morning immigration enforcement.”

“The area was filled with migrants who scattered,” Finn added. “DHS says MS 13 has a chokehold on this area, which is one reason they’re carrying out the highly optic immigration raids. 16 taken into custody.”

In the video, DHS agents wearing vests can be seen packed into the back of a rental truck. As soon as one of the agents opened the truck, the rest of them poured out, and a chaotic scene outside quickly unfolded. Several of the agents immediately ran after the fleeing migrants.

In a statement obtained by Los Angeles Times reporter Brittny Mejia, Penske made it clear that the company did not authorize the use of its trucks for the operation: Penske Truck Rental is aware of recent reports and videos regarding a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operation in Los Angeles. Penske strictly prohibits the transportation of people in the cargo area of its vehicles under any circumstances.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/penske-calls-out-dhs-for-using-its-rental-trucks-during-immigration-raids-in-la-we-did-not-authorize-this/



Patriot Front is known to use Penske (and U-Haul) rental box trucks to transport their hoodlums.
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Maybe the Penske customer service agents who rented the trucks out to DHS (they had to know)... wcmagumba Aug 2025 #1
'DHS agents wearing vests can be seen packed into the back of a rental truck.' riversedge Aug 2025 #2
Sounds like CYA to me. ananda Aug 2025 #3
Was a federal employee for decades madville Aug 2025 #5
So it's actually possible that nobody in the company knew? ananda Aug 2025 #6
They probably don't ask official government agencies as big as the DHS Polybius Aug 2025 #8
So that means they're deliberately turning a blind eye since... ananda Aug 2025 #9
Or they rented them using personal credit cards... SickOfTheOnePct Aug 2025 #13
I've rented numerous trucks over the years... SickOfTheOnePct Aug 2025 #12
I have used UHaul several times Jose Garcia Aug 2025 #15
I work in an industry that sometimes we have to rent trucks. kimbutgar Aug 2025 #4
Penske is also following DOT regulations while moniss Aug 2025 #7
Yes. So this means that the government can engage in... ananda Aug 2025 #16
Yes and while they make regulations about moniss Aug 2025 #17
Oh please BaronChocula Aug 2025 #10
Isn't using the cargo area for transporting passengers highly illegal ? Couldn't Highway Patrol pull them over ? nt eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 #11
How would the highway patrol know... SickOfTheOnePct Aug 2025 #14
I bet it's not enough of an issue to pull their GSA contract... EarthFirst Aug 2025 #18
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