Los Angeles (AP) – Thousands of people Mass deportations protest Planned by President Donald Trump paraded in southern California on Sunday, especially in downtown Los Angeles, where demonstrators blocked a large highway for several hours.
The demonstrators gathered in the morning on the historic street Olvera in Los Angeles, which dates back to Spanish and Mexican domination, before going to the town hall. They asked for immigration Reform and take banners with slogans like “no one is illegal”.
In the afternoon, the walkers had blocked all the tracks of us 101, which made traffic back in both directions and in the surface streets. The demonstrators sat in tracks, while a cord of the officers of the California road patrol was held. It took more than five hours at the highway to completely reopen, said Lieutenant-CHP on Sunday evening, Lieutenant Matt Gutierrez.
The CHP and the Los Angeles police department said there had been no arrest report.
In the east, hundreds of people protested in the city of Riverside. Passing motorists horny and shouted in support of demonstrators waving flags at an intersection, Southern California News Group reported.
And in San Diego, hundreds rallied near the city’s congress center on Sunday.
In Texas, the demonstrators gathered in downtown Dallas on Sunday in a pair of demonstrations against Recent arrests by American immigration and customs application. Dallas police told the Associated Press that around 1,600 people gathered between the two rallies.
The walkers carried Mexican and American flags and speakers expressed their indignation as to the rhetoric of Trump and his administration moves to increase deportations.
The signs held by the demonstrators included the one who said “immigrants make America large”.