On Sunday, thousands in Los Angeles stood in solidarity with the city’s immigrant community. Together, demonstrators of all ages protested Trump’s ongoing threats of mass deportations that would directly impact large groups of people in the city and surrounding L.A. County.
The protest was set to start at 9 a.m., by which time a crowd had already packed Placita Olvera long before the organizers began to speak. The sea of people holding banners and flags from their home countries spilled onto the streets by 9:30 a.m.
Their chanting slowly grew louder as time passed.
"El pueblo unido jamás será vencido” (“The people united will never be defeated”), rumbled throughout Downtown.
As the crowd approached City Hall, 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.