This was the day without immigrants in the United States

Yesterday, in the United States, a campaign was carried out in favor of immigrants and against the policies of President Donald Trump, but what was it and how was it celebrated?

Business dozens in the United States closed on Monday in response to the call made in social networks under the slogan of “one day without immigrants”organized in protest against the migratory measures implemented by the administration of the president of the US, Donald Trump.

According to Los Angeles Wendy Guardado activist, one of the organizers of the action, At least about 250 businesses in the country closed in solidarity with protest actions, and at the same time several school districts, especially in southern California, registered high levels of absence of students.

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The Los Angeles Times newspaper cites the anonymous testimony of a teacher in a primary school in the southern Californian city, who said that At least 390 students of the total of 670 did not go to classes and that many parents excused the absence of their children because of the protest.

The call, similar to that organized in February 2017, that is, a month after Trump began his first mandate, It also motivated several small businesses to operate with less number of personnel, in view of the fact that some of their workers participated to the extent.

As national newspapers give an account, several employees of a cafeteria in the Senate in Washington did not go to their work center.

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“My parents emigrated here so that we had a better life. I think we have to run the voice and raise awareness. We are here only to work and we want to do this for our parents and our people and know that they have rights,” Ana Cacatci told subsidiary in Chicago (Illinois) of the NBC chain.

The woman was one of those who participated in a demonstration in support of the day held in Chicago, one of the cities where the Trump administration has carried out operations against irregular immigration last week.

In several Hispanic shops they hung signs that reported the closure to join the “day without immigrants” and in solidarity with this community.

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For Víctor Narro, project director of the Labor Center of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Monday’s protest highlights that With a population that ages and the birth rates falling, the country’s economy will depend more and more on the immigrant workforce.

“The effectiveness of this type of mobilizations depends more on the message”He told Los Angeles Times.

The call to action that since last week began to circulate on the Internet invited immigrants to miss work, leave their children at home and not go to school, and refrain from shopping throughout Monday.

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During his electoral campaign, Republican Trump promised .

Similarly, he has announced that he plans to install up to about 30 thousand beds in the Naval Base of Guantanamo (Cuba) to house there undocumented immigrants.

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