Demonstrators through thousands of marched through Chicago on Tuesday, stopped traffic in the city center and chants Anti-Trump-Slogans while denouncing immigration raids in Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities.
Marchers, mixed together, waved, Mexican flags waved and held signs that denounce immigration and customs enforcement and President Trump, read “ice from Chicago”, “one mustache away from fascism” and “immigrants make America great.”
They were also accompanied by demonstrators who supported Palestinians, wore Kaffiyehs and calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.
“From Palestine to Mexico, these border walls have to go,” the Marchers sang.
In Chicago, a city with a considerable immigrant population, tensions are high in predominantly Latino neighborhoods about arrests of people without papers. In communities such as Pilsen, a heavy Mexican neighborhood, some residents have been afraid to go to work or go shopping, afraid that they will be held by federal immigration agents.
On Tuesday, police officers in Chicago followed the protests from the sidelines while tidying up parts of the center to let Marchers pass. In some streets, motorists touched their horns to support and residents of high -rise buildings took photos of their balconies. Some protesters flowed to Drusable Lake Shore Drive in the early evening.
Cheryl Thomas, 26, said she had joined the Mars “because the injustice were committed to brown and black people.”
“They are actually kidnapped,” she said, adding that she doesn’t know if the Mars will make a difference. “Don’t do anything, nothing will change.”
The Marchers tried to reach Trump International Hotel & Tower, a shiny skyscraper along the Chicago river, but the police blocked the road with officers and large trucks on the street.
The demonstration in Chicago, a predominantly left-wing city of 2.7 million, was much greater than the regular protests in the city in contrast to the Trump government since January. For months, groups that denounce President Trump’s policy have kept protests in the city center, often accompanied by democratic officials.
“This is cruelty with intention,” said Chuy Garcia representative of Chicago, a Democrat, this week during a separate protest.
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