Rafael Eduardo & Lilliana Rodriguez
Two weeks after the inauguration of right-wing extremist Donald Trump, militant anti-ICE protests have erupted across the country, culminating in a Day Without Immigrants rallies and strikes on Monday (02/03).
In Los Angeles, thousands marched at unprecedented levels and blocked the 101 Freeway downtown. Later in the evening, the LAPD declared the protest to be unlawful and arrested over 200 people.
In Austin, TX, police arrested two and fired projectiles filled with pepper spray as protesters refused to comply with police orders and took over the streets. After the original organizer of the event attempted to end the protest in cooperation with the police, attendees rebelled and continued protesting through the night despite APD claiming the protest ended in the evening. Protesters chanted “Trump escucha, estamos en la lucha” (Listen up Trump, we’re in the struggle) and “La migra, la policia, la misma porqueria!” (The border patrol, the police, the same nonsense!), with some allegedly throwing rocks at the police in self-defense.
Following heavily-publicized immigration raids in Aurora and Denver, CO, large crowds started converging on the Colorado state capitol building. The protest swiftly escalated as demonstrators took to the streets and blocked traffic along a major thoroughfare leading to the capitol building. According to Colorado Public Radio, it was the largest protest the city has seen.
In Atlantic City, NJ, hundreds of immigrants and activists rallied and demanded an end to ICE’s terror raids and deportations. One attendee told monopoly media, “We will not stay silent while our families are torn apart, while ICE terrorizes our neighborhoods, and while detention centers profit off our pain.”
More protests are planned for the coming weeks in defiance of the government’s brutal persecution of migrants and attacks on the working class.
Photo: Protesters rally in the street in Austin, TX in defiance of police orders.
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