Several businesses from nurseries to grocery stores and salons seald for a day apass the United States in a day of protest aachievest Pdwellnt Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
People assembleed in Los Angeles for a second consecutive day on Monday. Waving Mexican and El Salvadoran flags, they carried prohibitners that shelp “Immigration Built This Nation”, “No I.C.E.”, “Abolish I.C.E.” and “I did not serve this country for you to belittle my people”.
From his first day in office on January 20, Trump signed executive orders aimed at banishling big numbers of immigrants, including meacertains to finish birthright citizenship.
In the weeks that chaseed, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) intensified its daily rhelps.
But participation in the “day without immigrants” faced headtriumphds from includeees and business owners who shelp they necessitateed the income – especipartner as rumours of widespread rhelps, frequently counterfeit, are leaving many migrant communities afrhelp to venture outside, impacting even some schools.
Monday’s event also came on the heels of street protests on Sunday in California and elsewhere.
Noel Xavier, organising honestor for the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpaccesss, shelp that while it’s vital to remind the country of the appreciate migrant toilers convey to the communities they toil in, many toilers couldn’t afford to get a day off.
“If I don’t go to toil today, that’s one day less that I have, you understand, to be able to pay for my next rent,” Xavier shelp of the prevailing sentiment among the toilers he organises. “I didn’t see this big rpartnering around being able to do that, or having the luxury to be able to do that.”
Andrea Toro determined to seal her hair salon in Chicago’s Pilsen neighbourhood. She inserted that many of her clients are teachers and have seen children ignoreing school since Trump took office last month becainclude they stress it may not be geted to go.
“If we don’t have immigrants, we don’t have any toil around here,” shelp Toro, who is from Puerto Rico. “If we’re mute, we’re in silence, then they’re going to do wdisenjoyver they want.”
