September 5 Protests erupted across the country after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced for the Trump/Pence regime that the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is being “rescinded”. From Washington D.C. to Los Angeles, thousands of people marched and rallied. 800,000 people – the “DREAMers”, are in the DACA program and now face deportation. Being torn from their families, friends, jobs, schools, their lives. This is a significant move towards consolidating and implementing fascism – if the Trump/Pence regime is able to implement it and carry it through.
In Albuquerque, hundreds of University of New Mexico students were joined hundreds of high school students. 150 youth walked out of Rio Grande High school and staged their own march.
Outpourings of protest surged “all through Colorado”, according to a news account. The Denver Post reported that “Thousands of people, many of them brought to the U.S. illegally as children, converged on the Auraria Campus Tuesday morning to protest a decision by the Trump administration to end protections for DREAM Act recipients. … Students ranging from middle-school to university age gathered at the downtown Denver campus. Some made a 6-mile, three-hour walk to attend the rally organized by Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition and Padres y Jóvenes Unidos.”
In New York City, hundreds protested midday at Trump Tower in Manhattan. Several dozen people—including DACA recipients—sat down in the middle of 5th Avenue to block traffic and were arrested. A 30-year-old woman, originally from Mexico, who was among those arrested said, “Trump is trying to scare us into hiding, to get us to back down. We’re not going to back down.” Another protester, a young Latino, said, “We’re gonna have to be in the streets, daily, if that needs to happen. We’re gonna be here every day. You’re gonna hear from us.”
New York’s Channel 4 reported that “Thousands marched across the Brooklyn Bridge Tuesday evening in protest after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration is ending the DACA program.
“At least 13 were arrested, including one New York council member, adding to the 34 who were arrested hours earlier outside Trump Tower.”
Thousands took to the streets in Chicago. They gathered at Federal Plaza and planned to march to Trump Tower.
