Thousands in L.A. protest Trump’s immigration actions
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Angelenos react to Trump’s immigration crackdown
Angelenos took to the streets (and freeways) in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday in a large protest in opposition to President Trump’s hard-line immigration insurance policies.
Thousands of demonstrators — some draped within the flags of Mexico and different Latin American international locations — marched close to City Hall, blocking visitors on native streets and shutting down the 101 Freeway.

Thousands of protesters gathered downtown Sunday to show for immigrants’ rights, blocking lanes on the 101 Freeway at occasions.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
“The demonstration was largely peaceful, with some enterprising street vendors taking advantage of the moment to sell bacon-wrapped hot dogs, ice cream, churros, beer and even shots of Patron tequila,” Times reporters Daniel Miller and Ben Poston wrote.
Trump secured his second time period partly by vowing to launch the largest mass deportation in U.S. history. As his administration takes steps to ramp up enforcement, immigrant communities within the Golden State and past are expressing worry but additionally resolving to mobilize (once more).
L.A. was not the one metropolis that noticed immigration protests. Demonstrators took to the streets in San Diego, Dallas, the Atlanta area and different states over the weekend.
The rallies level to the deep-rooted resistance to Trump’s latest flurry of immigration orders. Those embrace declaring a national emergency on the southern border to deploy troops, growing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and making an attempt to end birthright citizenship.
“We thought we were done with his administration,” one protester informed Times reporters. “And now we have to do this again.”
Among the indicators noticed on the rally: “Trump eat caca! Beware the Nazis”; “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you”; and “I drink my horchata warm because f— I.C.E.”

Protesters march in downtown Los Angeles, rallying in opposition to President Trump’s aggressive immigration orders.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
An LAPD spokesperson informed Poston and Miller that there had been no arrests or accidents on metropolis streets associated to the protests and that the division was “staffed adequately” to deal with the demonstration.
California is dwelling to greater than 10 million foreign-born individuals, together with roughly 1.8 million undocumented residents as of 2022, according to the Pew Research Center. Both of these figures symbolize the most important within the nation, although California was the one state that noticed the inhabitants of undocumented immigrants lower in 2022, Pew reported.
More than 6 million households — almost 5% of the nation’s whole — embrace a number of undocumented immigrants, Pew researchers discovered. California has the second-highest variety of such households, simply behind Nevada. Roughly 4.4 million U.S.-born youngsters stay with an unauthorized immigrant guardian, based on Pew.
California has enshrined some protections for undocumented immigrants. Back in 2017, then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed the California Values Act (SB 54), which banned state and native regulation enforcement businesses from helping in any federal immigration enforcement.
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