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Protesters gathered in the morning on LA's historic Olvera
Street, which dates to Spanish and Mexican rule, before marching
to City Hall. They called for immigration reform and carried
banners with slogans like “Nobody is illegal.”
By the afternoon, marchers had blocked all lanes of U.S. 101,
causing traffic to back up in both directions and on surface
streets. The demonstrators sat down in lanes, while a cordon of
California Highway Patrol officers stood by. It took more than
five hours for the freeway to fully reopen, CHP Lt. Matt
Gutierrez said Sunday evening.
The CHP and the Los Angeles Police Department said there were no
reports of arrests.
To the east, hundreds of people protested in the city of
Riverside. Passing motorists honked and yelled out in support of
demonstrators waving flags at an intersection, the Southern
California News Group reported.
And in San Diego, hundreds rallied near the city's convention
center on Sunday.
In Texas, demonstrators gathered in downtown Dallas on Sunday in
a pair of protests against recent arrests by the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Dallas police told The
Associated Press that approximately 1,600 people gathered
between the two rallies.
Marchers carried Mexican and American flags and speakers
expressed outrage about the rhetoric from Trump and his
administration's moves to increase deportations.
Signs held by the protesters included one that read “Immigrants
Make America Great.”
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