On Monday, dozens of protests and demonstrations were carried out that oppose ice raids and government immigration policies throughout the country, with more planned for the rest of the week, after a weekend of protests and disturbances in Los Angeles.
From Sunday, the anti-hie movement has spread through California and beyond, with events held from New York to Texas. Activists plan more events on Tuesday, with events that are due in New York, Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta. A series of the so -called national manifestations of “no kings” are planned for Saturday.
Some 56 people were arrested during the weekend, since some 700 Marines and more than 2,000 Troops of the National Guard were deployed by President Donald Trump in response to the protests that began on Friday, which caused an extraordinary confrontation with the governor of California, Gavin Newsom and the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who firmly criticized the movement as the executive.
The State of California is demanding to the Trump administration for the deployment of the National Guard, qualifying the “illegal” measure.
NBC News told at least 25 manifestations and demonstrations from coast to coast. Some of them only involved a few dozen participants, while others attracted thousands to defend the arrest and elimination of suspects of undocumented migrants.
Many protesters throughout the country were trade unionists who requested the release of the president of Seiu California, David Huerta, who was arrested on Friday.
California and the West Coast
According to the reports, Miles marched San Francisco on Monday, marking the second day of Anti-Hielo protests there, San Francisco Chronicle reported. The San Francisco Police Department declared in X that the demonstration was “overwhelmingly peaceful”, but added that two small groups “broke and committed vandalism and other acts” at the end of the night. The department said he made an un specified number of arrests.
At least 60 people were arrested in a march in San Francisco on Sunday for not responding to a dispersion order, the NBC bay area reported.
“It is important for us to appear everywhere, because what happened in Los Angeles, what is happening throughout our country,” said Xan Joi de Berkeley, who attended Sunday’s protest with a sign that said “Ca and Newsom National Guard: protect our rights of the first amendment.”
Jesse McKinnon, from pleanant Hill, brought a sign that said “Softball dad against tyranny.”
NBC reported that at least 1,000 people joined a protest in a federal building in Santa Ana, Orange County. The number of arrests is unknown, but they occurred after the police declared that the illegal meeting.
Hundreds gathered at the City of San José on Sunday, and two separate protests occurred in San Diego.
“This policy arrives close to home, our family is a family of immigrants,” said Vanessa García-Morales of San José to the NBC Bay area.
Referring to one of her two children, who was in the demonstration, she said: “Her life is at risk, honestly, with the policy that is happening, it can be attacked by the way it is seen.”
The protests took place in the metropolitan area of Portland, Oregon, including a march in Seattle and one in Las Vegas.
New York and East Coast
At least nine people were arrested in New York after a tense confrontation between protesters and the police in a demonstration on Monday, according to NBC New York.
NYPD confirmed that there were “multiple arrests when people refused to fulfill” outside the Trump tower in the city center around 1 PM, before a “messy group” was arrested at 6:50 pm for blocking traffic and refusing to comply.
The event attacked ice raids and the prohibition of traveling imposed to 12 countries worldwide this week, with restrictions on people from 7 more countries.
The protesters also gathered in Boston, Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Texas, the south and the west medium
At least one person was arrested Monday in Dallas, police said, with pending positions, since the protesters and the police met in a confrontation that closed an intersection occupied.
The Daily Texan reported that about 500 met at the Texas Capitol on Monday, while hundreds met in San Antonio, according to Spectrum News 1.
The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, referring to the deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles, said in X that “an assault organized against federal officials of the law has been fought.”
Manifestations and demonstrations were also carried out in Charlotte, Atlanta, Louisville, Memphis, Chicago, Detroit and Oklahoma City.
The Secretary of the United States National Security Department, Kristi Noem, said Tuesday that the Agency’s Readas and Deportations Program would continue despite the generalized protests.
“Ice will continue to enforce the law,” said Noem.
