In southern California and all over the country, dozens of companies across the country closed, the schools reported on a lower visit and families set trips to the grocery store to pay attention to “one day without immigrants”.
The call for action, which was brought into circulation on social media last week, encouraged immigrants to skip their work, bring their children from school and keep their shopping on Monday.
Companies in the United States announced closings on social media. A Quinceañera boutique in Omaha. A café in Salt Lake City. A used car -without it in Baltimore. An auditing company in Pasco, Wash.
Wendy Guardado, an activist in Los Angeles who helped organizing the campaign, said that she had counted almost 250 companies nationwide that were closed in solidarity. Other institutions were not from employees. In the Abbey Food & Bar, a popular LGBTQ+ Nightclub in West Hollywood, the kitchen was closed due to a lack of personnel.
She said that the campaign was only the beginning on Monday and that she heard that many people could not afford to take a day off without considering a week.
“There is so much more,” said Guardado, “because there are four years of Trump.”
Guardado said three teachers in Los Angeles Unified School District told her that her classrooms were empty on Monday. Other district teachers told her that her classrooms were almost empty.
Jonah Ocampo, 5, competes against demonstrators against President Trump's immigration policy on February 3, 2025 in Santa Ana.
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Lausd did not immediately answer a request for comments. A spokesman for the Inglewood Unified School District said that “a higher absence of the students” had experienced in all schools. San Diego Unified School District Supt. Fabi Bagula found that some students and families took part in the protest, but now not much.
A teacher at the Parmelee Avenue Elementary School in South La, who asked not to be named because they were not justified for pronounced, said that 390 of the 670 schoolchildren were absent on Monday and that many parents had said this Be the protest.
At the El Sol Academy in Santa Ana, up to 50 students will miss a school day for personal reasons, said Sara Flores, the Chief Student and Family Support Officer at the school. 180 did not appear on Monday.
In Sacramento, Mario Ledesma, 31, decided to close his business Pa'l Norte Work & Western Wear.
Ledesma said his father, who immigrated to the United States from Mexico decades ago, sold western boots at a local flea market. Ledesma later also sold boots and switched to online sales during the Covid 19 pandemic. He was so successful that he opened an inpatient Mortar four months ago.
For Ledesma it was more important to close his young shop for a day than any profit he made. The name of his shop means in the north.
“I named my business in honor of the victims that our people made to look for the American dream in this country,” he wrote on Instagram. “We live in a moment when our American dream is being attacked … we show you that without ourselves The north does not exist” – The United States would not exist.
Demonstrators block parts of the Santa Ana Boulevard to protest President Trump's immigration policy on February 3, 2025 in Santa Ana.
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In Santa Ana, Reyna, a restaurant line that did not want to deliver her surname, decided because she is in the country without legal status, her two children from school and planned to switch shopping for the day.
Reyna had the day free of work. But when a friend wrote an SMS over the weekend about the boycott, she decided to participate.
“We are part of this economy,” she said. “Many of us immigrants who are here hurt anyone. We just wanted something better. “
Although the extent of business closures and absences was not immediately clear, experts said that the importance should not be measured in dollars and cent.
“The effectiveness of this type of mobilizations is more concerned with the message,” said Victor Narro, project manager of the UCLA Labor Center. He said that the protest on Monday emphasizes the fact that the country has to rely more on the workforce of immigrants so that the economy remains strong.
Several California restaurants on social media, which they close to support the campaign: in Oakland, Maria's house. In La Mirada, Barbacoa Los Gueros. All 10 locations of the popular Teddy's Red Taco, from Anaheim to Venice.
Antojitos Puebla in downtown Los Angeles also announced that it would close for the day. To FacebookThe restaurant wrote: “Immigrants are the backbone of our nation.”
Thousands march against President Trump's immigration policy in the city center of Los Angeles.
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Also in the city center, the demonstrators took up the demonstrations on Monday, which produced thousands and set the 101 motorway the day before because of President Trump's latest execution. The campaign was significantly smaller and there were no signs of a further takeover of the highway.
Outside of Los Angeles, the retirement of the helicopters above us was drowned by a cacophony of bull horns and fiery singing. The 18 -year -old Katherine Sanchez couldn't help but smile.
“It is very heartwarming,” said Sanchez and stood with her sister and parents on Monday afternoon. She kept a sign with the inscription: “Ur -racism will not end our strength.”
The senior citizen of the Burank High School, who heard about the demonstration on Tiktok, said she and many of her friends had skipped the school to join the protest.
The father of Sanchez, Esteban Sanchez, the child of Mexican immigrants, is disappointed with the news behind Trump's latest immigration campaigns.
“I was born here and feel like a foreigner,” he said.
“It is not the country I thought we were,” he added before he climbed off the curb and joined the demonstrators when they hurried the Spring Street.
Thousands gather in the city center of Los Angeles in March.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
In the city center of Santa Ana, hundreds of demonstrators gathered similarly in Sasscer Park and opposite the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse. Cars drove up and down the narrow streets of the neighborhood and honk their horns to the jubilation of pedestrians. Some cars that were on traffic between the park and the courthouse began to turn their tires in place and fill the air with smoke.
Fernanda Hernandez, 19, led some of her friends on 4th Street in the historic Latino corridor of Orange County. She kept a sign with the inscription: “My parents work harder than her president.” Both parents are undocumented immigrants from Mexico.
“Trump wants us to be afraid, but we can't be,” said Hernandez, who fell sick from her retail job. “We have to work for ours People. He wants us to be gone, whether we are illegal or not. “
Times Staff Writers, Soudi Jimenez, Howard Blume, Daniel Miller and Jaweed Kaleem, contributed to this report.