MARTIN PADILLA: Hello, my name is Martin.
HEIDY VELASQUEZ And my name is Heidy and we will be discussing about the recent protest in LA and Santa Ana.
PADILLA: In Trump’s campaign he said he wanted to mass deport many immigrants which caused many immigrants to start fighting back and protesting for their rights.
PADILLA: With the protest that have occurred in LA and Santa Ana, over 50 people came to show their support for the protest and represent themselves for their friends or their families.
VELASQUEZ: Many people were seen holding colorful flags to represent their countries.
PADILLA : In one of the protest, over thousands of people came together and blocked off the 101 freeway.
PADILLA : The protest started off very peaceful, but later on the protest started to get very violent and fights started breaking out.
PADILLA: In LA there was a tragic accident where a 17 year-old boy was stabbed during one of the anti-deportation protest.
PADILLA: Students in our own city also did a protest where they walked out of school during the day to show their support for the immigrants.
VELASQUEZ: In our interviews, we see a pattern where many people are concerned and frightened for Trump’s upcoming plans.
VELASQUEZ: While conducting one of our interviews, we heard from a mother how she doesn’t agree how some of these protest were being held as there was violence, and vandalizing , and breaking the law during some of these protest.
PADILLA: I very much agree with what she said because people shouldn’t be vandalizing the country they want to stay in, they shouldn’t be breaking their laws, they should be abiding by them and they are trying so hard to stay in this country, but they’re just making it worse for themselves by doing all that during the protest.
VELASQUEZ: I very much agree with Martin and the interviewer’s opinion as using violence, vandalizing, or breaking the laws won’t prove that we do want to be here or we want to be here.
PADILLA: My opinion on all of these protest is, I feel like they’re doing well with how they’re showing that they belong into this country, but something that I don’t agree with is that they’re not showing that they belong into this country by breaking all the rules.
PADILLA: They’re building the target on their backs because they don’t want to abidethe laws and that’s something that disturbs me because they’re trying so hard to stay in this country when they’re doing the most dumbest things to give trump that reason to take them out of here.
PADILLA: I also find the day without an immigrant very unrealistic because if my parents were to stay home to show their support, we would not have food on our table for one day. Missing one day of work is very important to many of these Latino families cause they work very hard to make sure they end up with food, with all the necessities that they need.
PADILLA: I also did like that they were raising money on a GoFundMe for families that were going to skip that day, so they made sure that they had money for groceries and stuff like that.
VELASQUEZ: I also agree with Martin as we were breaking laws by vandalizing some property which we used violence as a bad way to be heard and it would have been smarter of us to take peaceful protest and not block off streets or freeways.
VELASQUEZ: And I also didn’t really like how many students walked out of school. As I understand us, students wanted to show our support for friends, family and many out there but I feel like our education is really important and we have this opportunity to go to these amazing schools and as our parents didn’t have the same opportunities as us to attend these amazing schools.
VELASQUEZ: The day without immigrants is also a pretty bad way to show support because when parents miss work, it means they earn less money to their paycheck, which is less money to spend on food and pay any bills.
VELASQUEZ: I hope our podcast was able to give you a quick summary about the recent protests here in Santa Ana and La. Thank you so much for listening.
