Marchers block Los Angeles road in protest against deportations
The demonstrators sat down in the road while a cordon of California Highway Patrol officers stood by.
Thousands of people blocked a major road in Los Angeles in protest against mass deportations planned by President Donald Trump.
Protesters gathered on Sunday morning on LA’s historic Olvera Street, which dates to Spanish and Mexican rule, before marching to City Hall.
They called for immigration reform and carried banners with slogans like “Nobody is illegal”.
By the afternoon, marchers had blocked all lanes of US 101, causing traffic to back up in both directions and on downtown surface streets.
The demonstrators sat down in lanes, while a cordon of California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers stood by.
The CHP and the Los Angeles Police Department said there were no immediate reports of arrests.
To the east, hundreds of people protested in the city of Riverside. Passing motorists honked and yelled out in support of demonstrators waving flags at an intersection, the Southern California News Group reported.
And in San Diego, hundreds rallied near the city’s convention centre on Sunday.
In Texas, demonstrators gathered in downtown Dallas on Sunday in a pair of protests against arrests by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Dallas police told The Associated Press approximately 1,600 people gathered between the two rallies.
Marchers carried Mexican and American flags and speakers expressed outrage about the rhetoric from Mr Trump and his administration’s moves to increase deportations.
Signs held by the protesters included one that read “Immigrants Make America Great”.
