Rick Bayless has tweeted that he will close his four Chicago restaurants after his staff voted to support on Thursday's "A Day Without Immigrants" action to show the country how important immigrants are to the America's economy.
Frontera Grill, Topolobomp, Xoco and Fonda Frontera will all be closed on Thursday. Seventeen businesses in the west suburban Aurora will also be closed as a show of solidarity in a predominantly Hispanic community.
La Villita, a cantina and liquor store, has been the family owned for 20 years. The owner's daughter, and a first-generation American citizen, said that her father has never closed any of their four businesses before. But he will do so on Thursday, joining the thousands of other businesses nationwide.
There is also a planned protest on Thursday, in the Union Park from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Organizers in cities across the U.S. are telling the immigrants to miss class, miss work and not to shop on Thursday as a way to show the country how important they are to America's economy and way of life. "A Day Without Immigrants" actions are also planned in the cities including Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Austin, and Texas.
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The protest comes in response to the President Donald Trump and his 1-month-old administration. The Republican president has pledged to increase the deportation of immigrants living in the country illegally, build a wall along the Mexican border, and ban people from the certain majority-Muslim countries from coming into the U.S. He also has blamed the high unemployment on immigration.
The Davis Museum at the Wellesley College in Massachusetts said that it would remove or shroud all the artwork created or given by immigrants to the museum through Feb. 21st.
In the New Mexico, the state with the largest percentage of the Hispanic residents in nation, the school officials worried that hundreds of students may stay home on Wednesday.
Albuquerque school officials said that, the students who take part in the protest will receive an unexcused absence.
Organizers in Philadelphia said that they expect hundreds of workers and families to participate.
Many people who make the choice to skip work on Thursday will not be paid in their absence, but social media posts encouraging participation stressed that the cause is worth of the sacrifice.
By Mrudula.
