In southern California and all over the country on Monday, dozens of companies were closed in the country, schools reported their decrease in their presence and the postponement of families about trips to the grocery store in observing “a day without immigrants”.
The call to work, which started on social media last week, encouraged immigrants to overcome work, keep their children at home from school and refrain from shopping on Monday.
Companies throughout the United States have announced a closure of social media. QUINCEAñera Boutique in Omaha. Café in Sult Lake City. Used car in Baltimore. Passco accounting company, washing.
On Monday, a protest chanted a similar measure in the country in February 2017, that is, a month after President Trump began his first term. After that, as on Monday, the students moved away from the school and did not submit the workers to work, including employees at the Senate Café in Washington, DC,
Windy Gazado, an activist in Los Angeles, who helped organize the event, said she has calculated nearly 250 companies across the country and that closed solidarity with the movement. Other institutions found themselves less than workers. In Abbey Food & Bar, a famous nightclub LGBTQ+ in West Hollywood, the kitchen was closed due to lack of employment.
She said that the two procedures were just a start, and that she heard that many people could not bear the cost of working on a holiday with only one week’s notice.
“There is a lot to come, because there are four years from Trump,” said Gwadodo.
All parts of the unified Los Angeles, the attendance was 66 % on Monday compared to 93 % for this year as a whole – and 91 % last week, according to the boycott data. Gazado said that three teachers in the provinces told her that their classroom was empty on Monday. Others told her that their classroom was almost empty.
Yunnan Ocampo, 5 years old, joins demonstrators protesting the immigration policies of President Trump on February 3, 2025, in Santa Anna.
(Gina Verizy / Los Angeles Times)
A spokesman for the unified England School area of the school said it had witnessed the “absence of a student higher than usual” through schools. The unified San Diego School School. Fabi Bagola indicated that some students and families were participating in the protest, but he has now specified much.
A teacher at the Barmelie Avenue Primary School in South Los Angeles, who asked not to be named because they were not allowed to speak, said that 390 school students of 670 students are absent on Monday and that many parents said that it was because of the protest.
Sara Flores, the chief school and family student at the school, at the Santa Anna Academy, said up to 50 students who will be absent from a day from school for personal reasons. On Monday, 180 did not appear.
In Sacramento, Mario Ledisma, 31, decided to close his store, and Pa’l Norte Work & Western Wear.
Lidisma said his father, who immigrated to the United States from Mexico decades ago, used to sell western shoes in a local used market. LEDESMA later sold the shoes as well, as it turned into online sales during the Covid-19s. It was so successful that it opened four months ago of bricks and mortars.
For LEDISma, the closure of his emerging store for a day was more important than any profit he achieves. His store name means to the north.
“I was called my work in honor of the sacrifices our people made to come to this country in search of the American dream,” he wrote on Instagram. “We live in a moment when our American dream is attacked … Let’s see them without us Loreti does not exist– The United States will not be present.
The demonstrators prevent parts of Santa Anna Street to protest against immigration policies on February 3, 2025, in Santa Anna.
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Among the closed restaurants to show solidarity with the demonstrators, Golfo De Fonseca, the Salvadori Restaurant in Bakuima. Yunatan Franco, 30, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador in 2015, hoped that Poposas request for lunch. He and his father led in the black Nissan Xterra at noon to find the dark restaurant.
Franco said that, given the deportation wave requested by Trump, he chose not to buy large companies, such as McDonald’s, aimed at Wall Mart.
He said: “These big stores support Trump,” there are many Latinians in Mubadala who meet by selling clothes, and we can support our people who are struggling with their work. “
In Santa Anna, Reina, which is to cook the restaurant line that did not want to present the family name because it is in the country without legal status, prevents her children at home from school and planned to rid the grocery shop for this day.
Reina was already a holiday. But when she sent her a boycott friend during the weekend, she decided to join.
“We are part of this economy,” she said. “Many of us immigrants here do not harm anyone. We just wanted something better.”
Although the closure of business and absence was immediately clear, experts said that importance should not be measured in dollars and cent.
“The effectiveness of these types of mobilization is more in the thesis,” said Victor Narou, project manager at the University of California Labor Center in Los Angeles. He said that the Monday’s protest highlights the fact that with the growth of the population and the decline in birth rates, the country will have to rely more on the migrant workforce so that the economy remains strong.
Several California restaurants were published on the social media they were closing to support the event: in Auckland, No Casa de Maria. In La Mirada, Barbakua Los Jerus. All ten sites of the popular Teddy’s Red Tacos, from Anheim to Venice.
Antujitus Bouella, in the center of Los Angeles, has also announced that it will be closed today. on FacebookThe restaurant wrote that “the immigrants are the backbone of our nation.”
Thousands of march in the center of Los Angeles to protest against the immigration policies President Trump.
(Robert Gotier / Los Angeles Times)
Also in the city center, the demonstrators resumed the demonstrations on Monday, which removed thousands and closed the highway 101 day before Trump’s executive procedures on immigration. The procedure was much smaller, and there was no sign of another highway.
Outside the Los Angeles Hall, a helicopter drowned in the sky of the upper planes by Kakovone of bulls and fiery chants. Catherine Sanchez, 18, could not smile.
“It is very sad,” Sanchez said, standing with her sister and parents on Monday afternoon. I held a sign that says: “Racism will not end our strength.”
A student of Borbank Secondary School, who heard about the demonstration in Tijook, said that she and many of her friends have overcome the school to join the protest.
Sanchez’s father, Esteban Sanchez, a Mexican immigrant child, is frustrated by the messages behind Trump’s recent actions on immigration.
He said: “I was born here, and I feel that I am a foreigner.”
He added: “It is not the country I thought we were.”
Thousands gathered during the march in the center of Los Angeles.
(Robert Gotier / Los Angeles Times)
In the center of Santa Anna, hundreds of demonstrators gathered similarly in the Sasir Park and crossed the street at the Ronald Reagan Federal Court. The cars drove up and down in the narrow streets in the neighborhood, while their horns were repeated to pedestrian chants. Some cars, stuck in traffic between the park and the court, began to spin their tires in place, and fill the air with smoke.
Fernanda Hernandez, 19, led some of her friends on the fourth street, the historic Latin corridor in Orange County. I held a banner saying: “My parents are working more seriously than your boss.” Both her parents are illegal immigrants from Mexico.
“Trump wants to be afraid, but we cannot be,” said Hernandez, who called the patients from the retail job. “We need to stand for us Rect. He wants us to go, whether we are illegal or not. “
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