South California and Monday, a few companies nationwide, the school reported the decrease in attendees, and the family has been postponed to a grocery store in compliance with the “immigration day”. 。
The call for actions that began to be distributed on social media last week was encouraged to skip work on immigrants, stay home from school, and refrain from shopping on Mondays.
Companies throughout the United States have announced the closure of social media. Omaha’s QUINCEAANABOUTIQUE. Salt Lake City coffee shop. Baltimore used car lot. Pasco accounting firm, wash.
The protest on Monday repeated the same nationwide action in February 2017, one month after Trump started his first term. Later, as on Monday, the students left the school, and the workers did not report to work, including employees at the Senate coffee shop in Washington DC.
Wendy Garddod, Los Angeles activist, who helped to organize the action, said about 250 businesses nationwide, where the movement and solidarity were closed. Other facilities noticed that they were not enough for workers. At West Hollywood’s popular LGBTQ+nightclub, Abbey Food & Bar, the kitchen was closed due to lack of personnel.
She said that Monday’s behavior was just the beginning, and many people heard that he couldn’t afford to work a day in just a week of notice.
“There are more arrivals,” Gardod said. “Because Trump has four years.”
According to district data, Los Angeles was unified, 66 % on Monday, 93 % a year, and 91 % last week. Gardod told her that her classroom was empty on Monday. Others told her that their classroom was almost empty.
Jonah Okampo (5 years old) joined a demonstration squad against President Trump’s immigration policy on February 3, 2025.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
The spokesman of the IngleWood Unification School District said he had experienced “normal students” throughout the school. San Diego Unification School District Sapto. Fabi Bagula pointed out that some students and their families are participating in protests, but they have not yet identified them.
The teacher at Palmery Avenue Elementary School in South Rosanzels asked not to name it because they were not allowed to speak, but 390 out of 670 students at school were absent on Monday. Many parents said that it was for protest.
At the Elsor Academy in Santa Anana, Sarah Flores, the chief student and family support officer of the school, states that as many as 50 students will miss the school day for personal reasons. 180 people did not appear on Monday.
At Sacramento, 31 -year -old Mario Desma has decided to close his store, Pa’l Norte Work & Western Wear.
Desma said that his father, who moved from Mexico to the United States several decades ago, was selling western boots at a local flea market. LEDESMA later sold boots and switched to online sales during COVID-19 pandemic. He was very successful and opened a real store four months ago.
For Ledesma, closing his rushing store for one day was more important than the profits he had set up. The name of his store means north.
“I have named my business, with respect for the sacrifice of our people who came to this country in search of American dreams,” he wrote on Instagram. “We are alive at the moment when American dreams are being attacked … let’s show them to them without us.” -The United States will not exist.
The demonstrator blocked a portion of Santa Anable Bird and protested on Trump’s immigration on February 3, 2025 in Santa Anana.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Among the closed restaurants to show a solidarity with the protests, Golfo de Fonseca, a restaurant in Pakoima Salvador, was Golfo de Fonseca. 30 -year -old Yonatan Franco, a non -documented immigrant that arrived from El Salvador in 2015, wanted to order Pupusas for lunch. He and his father drove the black Nissan Xterra at noon to darken the restaurant.
Franco said that he chose not to buy it at large companies such as McDonaldd, target, and Wal -Mart, given the waves of the overseas expulsion ordered by Trump.
“These large stores support Trump,” he said.
In Santa -Anna and Reina, she decides to keep her children from school from school at a restaurant chef who is in a country without legal status, and shop for food on that day. I was planning to postpone.
Reina was already taking a break from work. However, when a friend sent a text message to her about boycots on the weekend, she decided to participate.
“We are part of this economy,” she said. “Many of our immigrants here are not hurt. I just wanted something better.”
Although the scope of business closure and absence was not clear immediately, experts said that the importance should not be measured in dollars and cents.
Victor Naro, a project director of the UCLA Labor Center, states: He stated that protests on Monday emphasized the fact that the population is aging and the birth rate is declining, and that the economy remains powerful and must rely more on immigration labor.
Some California restaurants have posted to social media that they are closed in support of action. In La Milada, Barbacore Ross Geros. From Anaheim to Venice, all 10 popular red tacos.
Antjitos Puebla in downtown Los Angeles has also announced that it will be closed that day. On Facebook, the restaurant wrote that “immigration is the backbone of our country.”
Thousands will march in Los Angeles downtown and protest against President Trump’s immigration policy.
(Robert Gottier /Los Angeles Times)
In downtown, protests resumed demonstrations on Monday, pulled out thousands of people, closed 101 highways one day ago, and closed Trump’s recent immigration. The action was very small, and there were no signs to acquire another expressway.
Outside the Los Angeles City Hall, the wirs above the helicopter were OWN due to beef and burning Chan singing. The 18 -year -old Catherine Sanchez had to smile.
“It’s very warm,” Sanchez stood with his sister and his parents on Monday afternoon. She had a sign saying, “Ul -rosic discrimination does not end our strength.”
A senior at Barbank High School, who heard about Tactoku’s demonstration, said that many of her and many of her friends skipped the school to participate in protests.
Esteban Sanchez, the child of Mexico’s immigration, the father of Mexico, is discouraged by a message behind the recent actions of Trump about immigrants.
“I was born here, and I feel like a foreigner,” he said.
“We were not the country we thought,” he added, and we got off the curb and joined the protest, and they ran through the Spring Street.
Thousands of rally while marching in Los Angeles downtown.
(Robert Gottier /Los Angeles Times)
In the downtown Santa Ana, hundreds of protests gathered across the suspension park and the Ronal Drain Gunfedellal Court House. The car drove up and down on the narrow streets of the neighborhood and rang the cheers of pedestrians. Several cars, which were congested between the park and the court, began to rotate the tires to the prescribed position and filled the air with smoke.
19 -year -old Fernanda Hernandez led some of her friends down the 4th Avenue, a historic Latin corridor in Orange County. She had a sign saying, “My parents are working harder than your president.” Her parents are both immigrants that are not documented from Mexico.
“Trump wants to be afraid, but we can’t do that,” said Hernandes, who was ill in her retail business. “We need to stand up for a gentleman. He wants to leave us, regardless of whether we are illegal.”
Times Staff Writer SOUDI JIMENEZ, Howard Blume, Daniel Miller, Jaweed Kaleem have contributed to this report.
