(AP) – The national “Day Without Immigrants” includes actions in both
of Missouri’s metropolitan areas.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Cherokee Street, the hub of
traditional Mexican cuisine in St. Louis, was mostly quiet at lunch hour
Thursday after several restaurants closed in solidarity.
Meanwhile, the Kansas City Star reports that 400 to 500 protesters gathered
near City Hall, many holding banners and signs such as “Somos America,” which
translates to “We’re America.”
The protests are in response to President Donald Trump’s pledge to increase
deportation of immigrants living in the country illegally, build a wall along
the Mexican border, and ban people from certain majority-Muslim countries from
coming into the U.S.
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