Businesses in the Bay Area called to close Monday in a day without immigrants

Immigrant lawyers in the Bay area said they would not work, go to school or shop Monday in protest against President Donald Trump’s immigration.

The planned protest that advocates for a day without immigrants is about highlighting a society under siege, said Roberto Hernandez, a long -time social organizer of San Francisco’s Mission District and CEO of Cultura Y ARTILE NIVATURY DE LAS AMERICAS, who produces the neighborhood’s popular Carnaval Celebration.

Attorneys urge the residents of the Bay Area to avoid working, shopping or eating out Monday in recognition of immigrants’ economic and cultural contributions.

The protest was originally set to take place in May, Hernandez said, but the nationwide network of advocates that have organized the day of action since 2006, decided not to wait in the light of Trump administration’s recent crash and its aggressive deportation policy. The administration increased significant immigration enforcement across the country in recent days when federal immigration officials are aimed at local workers in San Jose and San Francisco.

“Enough is enough,” Hernandez said in an interview on Sunday afternoon. “Everyone said, ‘Let’s not wait, let’s do it now.’ We need to stand up for immigrant workers for farmers, the hardest working people in this country. “

Several companies, including Valley Swim Club, a seafood restaurant in Sonoma, announced that they will close Monday to support the protest. Organizers with the group in all necessary ways said they planned to hold a demonstration in Oakland’s Fruitvale Plaza at. 11.30 Monday.

Mario Cruz, if website Latin Bay Area Publishes Latino -cultural events in the region, said he was planning to skip work to join a Mission District Collection Monday, in solidarity with union organizers, nonprofit workers and others who opposed Trump immigration policies.

“It’s a rally -cries,” Cruz said. “The Latino community has had it. We are an important part of the United States. ”

The first day without immigrants took place in May 2006. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered across the country to support the expansion of immigrant rights. While California’s Superintendent of Schools urged parents to send their children to school, the school districts in San Francisco and San Jose students participated in protests if their parents called in advance.

The protest has taken place every year since, with occasional high participation bursts, such as 2017 day for action that saw thousands of students absent from schools and scores in Bay Area companies closely after Trump tried to ban citizens in several majority Muslim countries From entering the United States when he first took office.