On Tuesday, February 4, 2025, hundreds of students from Marshall High School in Los Angeles walked out of classes to protest the immigration and deportation policies of President Donald Trump’s administration. This demonstration followed a larger “Day Without Immigrants” protest held on Monday, during which hundreds took to the streets, many waving Mexican flags and holding signs with messages like “Keep Families Together” and “Immigrants Make America Great.”
The students marched through downtown Los Angeles, carrying signs and Mexican flags, and gathered at Olvera Street and the Spring Street side of City Hall, where they chanted and held a rally. The Los Angeles Police Department monitored the protests and reported that the student demonstrations were peaceful.
These protests are in response to President Trump’s announced plans to initiate the most extensive mass deportation operation in U.S. history, targeting immigrants living in the country illegally. He has also expressed intentions to end birthright citizenship, which grants legal status to children born in the United States to non-citizens. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the effort to end birthright citizenship.
