Protesters marched in Los Angeles on International Migrants Day, calling for safeguards for immigrant families and opposing the incoming administration's mass deportation plans.
Hundreds of people marched through the streets of downtown Los Angeles Wednesday to mark International Migrants Day, sharing messages of hope, solidarity and resistance to the incoming presidential administration's promises of mass deportations.As the demonstration wound through downtown, people held signs bearing messages like 'No person is illegal' and 'Education, Not Deportation' as they marched to the steps of the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement office along North Los Angeles Street. There, CHIRLA, or the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, led advocacy groups, labor unions and other demonstrators in a rally calling on the Biden Administration and Congress to issue safeguards for immigrant families ahead of Donald Trump taking office.It's part of a national week of action being led by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, a coalition of two dozen immigrant rights groups across 26 states. Groups such as CHIRLA have been lobbying lawmakers in Washington, D.C. this week to vote against what the advocacy group describes as 'anti-immigrant provisions' in future government budgets. 'We want to uplift the immigrant story,' Pedro Trujillo, a member of CHIRLA, said from the march. He said CHIRLA and other organizations were looking to '...uplift immigration and migration and just the hope and the beauty that all brings and the culture that all brings — so that folks feel like they have someone that's backing them up.'In Los Angeles, more than 950,000 of the city's residents are undocumented immigrants, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Earlier this month, LA established a sanctuary city ordinance prohibiting city staff and resources from being used to assist federal immigration enforcement efforts. The new policy only allows such assistance in cases involving individuals convicted of serious felony crimes who were previously deporte
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