Watch: Massive Protests Erupt Across the Country After Trump Kills DACA
Students Also Protest on First Day of Back-to-School
Massive protests are erupting across the country in response to President Donald Trump’s decision to end DACA, a program that protect undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Late Tuesday morning Attorney General Jeff Sessions made the announcement, in a speech tinged with tones of nativism, and filled with twisted truths implying DREAMers bring crime, violence, and even terrorism to America’s shores.
In Washington, D.C., at the White House at Trump’s famous hotel, and bravely at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters, protestors are denouncing the decision.Â
In New York City, at Trump Tower, there’s a sit-in that at one point was blocking Fifth Avenue.
And, as The Independent reports, on what for many is the first day of back-to-school, hundreds of students in Denver and  Albuquerque are walking out to protest Trump’s decision and to support DREAMers.
Waving signs that say “Defend DREAMers,” and “Here to Stay,” protestors are chanting “No DACA, no peace,” and “Sà se puede” – roughly, “Yes, we can.”
MASSIVE sit down in front of Trump Hotel! #DefendDACA #HeretoStay pic.twitter.com/nEuGhE0MQB
— PFAW (@peoplefor) September 5, 2017
Booing as we pass trump hotel. #DefendDACA pic.twitter.com/DMbeBzeL1g
— Katie W (@KatieWerner6) September 5, 2017
“Families don’t have borders,” -communities from Maryland @CASAforall marching from White House to Trump Hotel to #DefendDACA. pic.twitter.com/QVflF77NcS
— Popular Democracy (@popdemoc) September 5, 2017
The #DefendDACA march from the White House to ICE HQ has begun in DC. First stop: Trump Hotel. pic.twitter.com/VmeVYKAnIt
— Cronkite News (@cronkitenews) September 5, 2017
This #DefendDACA rally started at WH, traveled past Trump Hotel now headed to ICE headquarters. Marching for nearly an hour thru DC pic.twitter.com/tyKQnLEokw
— Blayne Alexander (@ReporterBlayne) September 5, 2017
Sitting in front of the Trump Hotel to #DefendDACA pic.twitter.com/qzk3RrYWx5
— Brynna Quillin (@brynnaquillin) September 5, 2017
Sit in at ICE in DC:
Hundreds of #DefendDACA protesters just started a sit-in outside @ICEgov headquarters in SW DC: pic.twitter.com/xA3dguCXiu
— Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews) September 5, 2017
NYC:
Protestors outside of Trump Tower in NYC are being arrested, they will have to take us all. ✊🽠#DACA #DefendDACA pic.twitter.com/SMSQVFeSCE
— Simar (@sahluwal) September 5, 2017
Breaking: @CosechaMovement now blocking 5th Av #DefendDACA #DACA #Resist #Somos11Millones #SinDACASinMiedo pic.twitter.com/uI6rCcI3xb
— Gili Getz (@giligetz) September 5, 2017
Thais, DACAmented organizer from NJ, outside Trump Tower: “now we need to fight for my parents and for all 11 million imm” #SinDACASinMiedo pic.twitter.com/OfdslOoSnz
— Movimiento Cosecha (@CosechaMovement) September 5, 2017
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