Tens of thousands take the streets in Wisconsin to be part of a “Day Without Immigrants”.

Last Tuesday, tens of thousands protesters marched on the streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest city. The organizers of the march launched a call for one day strike, naming it “a day without immigrants,” their call was answered by more than 170 companies in 25 cities of this state.  The demonstrators also showed their repudiation to the plans of the local Sheriff David Clarke to convert his police officers in immigration agents. Our news director, Samuel Orozco, interviewed Christine Neumann Ortiz, executive director of Milwaukee’s “Voces de la Frontera”, the organization which launched the call for a general strike.

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