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Hundreds of people marched through Los Angeles on Sunday in May Day rallies that took aim at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and his vow to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
Three separate marches were held in Los Angeles on Sunday, beginning around noon, with several hundred people championing a variety of causes but especially immigrant and worker rights. More than a third of Los Angeles residents speak Spanish, second only to Miami among major U.S. cities.
At one of the rallies, a boisterous crowd carried a large blow-up doll of Trump holding a Ku Klux Klan hood with signs that read: "Dump Trump."
The rallies in a city with a large immigrant population come just days after protesters smashed the window of a police car and blocked traffic in chaotic scenes outside a Trump campaign event in Costa Mesa, California, 40 miles (64 kms) southeast of Los Angeles.
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On Friday, demonstrators who blocked the entrance of a hotel hosting the California Republican convention in Burlingame, south of San Francisco, forced Trump to halt his motorcade and go through a back entrance to deliver his speech.
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Protests have become commonplace outside rallies for the 69 year-old billionaire. He has aroused criticism for his pledge to deport all the country's illegal immigrants, even as that pledge helped propel him in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Trump has accused Mexico of sending drug dealers and rapists into the U.S. and has promised to build a wall along the southern border—and to make Mexico pay for it.
Trump said on Sunday he will have essentially sealed the Republican nomination if he wins Tuesday's contest in Indiana, where he holds a big lead over chief rival Ted Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas.
California holds its presidential primary on June 7.
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