(20 Jan 2025)
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Chicago – 20 January 2025
1. Various of protesters gathered at Federal Plaza, holding signs and chanting
2. Mid of protesters posing for a photo, one holding a sign and the other dressed as U.S. President Donald Trump
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Muhammad Sankari, Arab American Action Network:
“It’s not any of our community’s faults that we ended up with a racist, misogynist in office. It lands at the feet of the Democratic Party that did not deliver on any of their promises to any of our communities.”
4. Wide pan of protesters gathered, holding flags
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Muhammad Sankari, Arab American Action Network:
“We reject the notion that any of us is responsible for Trump. Trump is responsible for Trump, and the Democrats are responsible for losing millions of votes.”
6. People gathered as organizers speak
7. Various of protesters marching
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Martin Unzueta, Mijente:
“We have a message for this administration: we will not be pushed around. We are here and we are not leaving. This is where we have raised our families, where we have paid taxes and where we have our homes. We are not leaving.”
9. Mid of protesters chanting
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Faayani Aboma Mijana, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression:
“As it pertains to the Chicago Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression, which is the organization that I’m in, we will intensify our fight to stop police crimes. We will intensify our fight to free the wrongfully incarcerated, and we will intensify our solidarity with immigrants and immigrants’ rights organizations as we fight to stop these mass deportations. No deportations!”
PROTESTERS: “No deportations!”
11. Various of protest march starting from Federal Plaza toward Trump Tower
STORYLINE:
Activists and immigrant rights groups gathered in Chicago to protest the inauguration of incoming President Donald Trump Monday, calling for unity and vowing to fight Trump’s policies.
Trump has promised a flurry of executive actions on Day 1, with executive orders already ready for his signature expected to end diversity, equity and inclusion funding, crack down on border crossings and ease regulations on oil and natural gas production.
Thousands gathered in Chicago’s Federal Plaza before marching to the city’s Trump Tower.
During a briefing prior to the march, activist Martin Unzueta said he had a message for the incoming administration: “We are here, and we are not leaving.”
“This is where we have raised our families, where we have paid taxes and where we have our homes. We are not leaving,” Unzueta added.
Trump is expected to declare a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, send U.S. troops to help support immigration agents and restrict refugees and asylum.
He is also set to sign orders to ease regulatory burdens on oil and natural gas production. Already Monday, Trump ended a Biden-era border app that gave legal entry to nearly 1 million migrants.
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