In a show of protest with foreign born workers across the country, activists in the Bay Area joined the protest by staying home and out of their respective workplace on Thursday (16th Feb) in a nationwide “Day Without Immigrants.”
The day long action from the coast to coast was meant to protest against the Donald Trump’s executive order on an immigration ban from seven Muslim-majority countries and the how the United States what it would feel like if there were no immigrant employees in schools, flower shops, grocery stores, doctor’s office, restaurant and more.
Roughly there are 41 million immigrants in the Country; an estimated 11 million of those may be undocumented.
The #DayWithoutimmigrants was trending on Twitter, with posts that read "We pick, cook and serve your food," and "Roses are red, tacos are enjoyable, do not blame a Mexican just because you are employable."
Many people were in support of the day, but some, such as Pail Nehlen tweeted "Rooting for ICE every day but especially today because it's #Daywithoutimmigrants."
Another Republican person in Tennessee tweeted that there is nothing wrong with immigrants, there's just a problem.
The protest invited foreign-born people regardless of legal status to stop working for 24 hours; it also hopes to demonstrate the economic impact of Latinos in particular, in the US.
According to studies if undocumented people were deported, US could face losses up to $551.6 million within just one year.
The restaurant industry was leading up the civil rights protest, as many cooks, waiters, bus boys and others in the business, typically hail from other countries.
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