Draped in Mexican and Salvadoran flags, roughly 1,000 demonstrators gathered near City Hall shortly before noon, blocking traffic at Spring and Temple streets.

Thousands of people protesting mass deportations planned by President Donald Trump marched in Southern California, including in downtown Los Angeles where demonstrators blocked a major freeway.

Protests against the immigration and deportation policies of the administration of President Donald Trump continued in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday. On Monday — intended to be a “Day Without Immigrants” — hundreds took to the streets,