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Protest in St. Louis on February 1 On February 1, a significant public demonstration took place in downtown St. Louis , Missouri . The event drew approximately 1,000 participants who gathered to protest the Trump administration's enhanced deportation efforts in the metro area, with many playing drums, chanting, and conducting organized calls ...
Any unilateral action would likely lean on a president’s authority under Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which offers broad powers to block entry of certain immigrants if ...
In 1931, one of the largest raids occurred in Los Angeles when more than 400 people at La Placita Park were rounded up and deported to Mexico. People of Mexican descent were deported from the U.S ...
Droves of protesters marched in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, blocking a section of a major freeway in response to the immigration crackdown and deportation policies planned by President Donald ...
Post-World War I fear of communism manifested itself in Los Angeles through an increased nationalistic, anti-immigrant sentiment. While prominent politicians such as former governor Hiram Johnson and activist Simon Lubin advocated for progressive policies, such as women's rights and labor rights, local politics of Los Angeles county and California at large leaned conservative, with governor ...
North to Aztlan: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States (2006) Gomez, Laura E. Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race (2008) Gomez-Quiñones, Juan. Mexican American Labor, 1790-1990. (1994). Gonzales, Manuel G. Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States (2nd ed 2009) excerpt and text search
Thousands of raucous protesters rallied against President Trump’s renewed effort to deport illegal migrants and ground traffic to a standstill on a Los Angeles freeway Sunday afternoon.
Most of the hundreds of thousands of Mexican refugees who fled to the United States during the Revolution settled in California and the U.S. Southwest. In Los Angeles, many of the resettled refugees lived in the historically Mexican American area of East Los Angeles. [177]