Law enforcement personnel stage on the 110 freeway during a protest calling for immigration reform Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles.
Thousands of people protesting mass deportations planned by President Donald Trump marched in Southern California on Sunday, including in downtown Los Angeles where demonstrators blocked a major freeway for several hours.
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.”
2 thoughts on “Marchers protesting planned deportations block major freeway in Los Angeles – Associated Press”
California is worth saving.But, after the last 20-30 years the great state must take a big fall and endure a collapse of tax revenues, falling home prices and associated issues. No bail outs without major reductions in government regulations and personnel costs.
State Employee unions, all of them, must take pay and benefit cuts. Costs must be brought into line with revenues. The Trump administration will enforce federal laws and require the governor to make the LA fire recovery happen with proven cutbacks -waved requirements on property owners.
Hopefully, Governor Newsom has enough respect for the state and the people to comply with what is required to restore the LA area and reduce the massive costs of government.
Kalifornistan is only worth saving for its National tactical measures and natural resources. The leftist poison seeps east and causes problems everywhere else. Their leftist attitudes and practices have compounded all of their problems, and they won’t stop unless a consistent regime change occurs and the filth is driven out, imprisoned, or otherwise changed. The above article just happens to be this week’s latest example — one example of many.
Remember: don’t Kalifonicate AZ!
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