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Tens of thousands Latinos and supporters took to the streets today in Milwaukee to protest against harsher immigration legislation:

“We want to be treated with equality”, Hernández added. Some 90 businesses, run by Latin Americans in the southern sector of the city were closed during the day or for several hours in support of the protest.

The protestors are opposed to legislation, approved in December by the House of Representatives that would make being in the USA illegally a crime.

Accordingly, employers who take on illegal immigrants would be subject to new sanctions and the law would provide support for the construction of a wall along a third of the border with Mexico.

Meanwhile, Latino business owners in Atlanta are calling for a boycott which would shut the doors of their businesses tomorrow, to protest new immigration legislation in Georgia:

“They’ll see what type of effect it would have on the economy if they would take us all, like they say, ship us to Mexico or Guatemala or El Salvador,” Covarrubias said.

Community leaders say it’s a way to force Metro Atlanta to recognize the importance of Latin workers.

Business leaders have organized, and are encouraging Latin immigrants living in Metro Atlanta to spend their Friday without spending at all.

In understand the not spending, but shutting one’s own business seems a bit counter-productive to me.

Photo via Channel 11 Atlanta

Via / Daily Journal and Channel 11 Atlanta