Many shops shut down

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Up and down Broadway the majority of businesses were closed on the nornally bustling street. Those in the crowd blew horns and held signs that read ‘stop the raids and deportations,’ and ‘legalization now.’ But their numbers were considerably less than a year ago. Sonia Sanchez, 30 and a native of Naucalpan Mexico, who came out to the march with her two daughters said stories were circulating that immigration officials would be rounding people up. ‘Many people were intimidated,’ said the Sanchez who has been in the U.S. for six years and works as a house cleaner. But she was defiant, ‘we had to come.’

-Sam Quinones at Olympic and Broadway