LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — Protests against the immigration and deportation policies of the administration of President Donald Trump continued in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday.
On Monday — intended to be a “Day Without Immigrants” — hundreds took to the streets, many of whom waved flags of Mexico, a country with whom Trump has regularly feuded.
In opposition to Trump’s promised mass deportations, “many held up D.I.Y. signs that read ‘Keep Families Together’ and ‘Immigrants Make America Great,’ among other statements of support for the city’s increasingly threatened immigrant communities,” L.A. Taco reports.
On Tuesday, marchers were back, but this time included several hundred students from Marshall High School, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Dozens marched in the streets, with some carrying signs or a Mexican flag on their way to Olvera Street, where they chanted and held a rally.
Students also demonstrated on the Spring Street side of City Hall, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Trump has announced plans to initiate the most extensive mass deportation operation in U.S. history, targeting immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. He also announced his intention to end birthright citizenship, which grants legal status to children who were born in the United States to non-citizens.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked that effort.
