#NoHateDebate: GOP candidates met with protest over their anti-immigrant rants
Hours before Republican presidential candidates are to clash in a televised debate, dozens of protesters rallied in Los Angeles to express their anger over GOP rhetoric on immigration.
The rally occupied streets near the Ronald Reagan Library, where the debate is to start at 8 p.m. EST.
Some of the protesters got their anger out on a giant effigy of the leading candidate Donald Trump, slapping and punching it.
#yourefired#nohatedebate#americaisbetter@realDonaldTrumppic.twitter.com/KJhHw6AjNr
— UNITE HERE Local 11 (@UNITEHERE11) September 16, 2015In one video, demonstrators chanted, "Trump says go away; we say no way!"
RT @yanosfuimos:Trump says go away we say NO WAY @unitehere@UNITEHERE11@realDonaldTrump#GOPDebate#NoHateDebatepic.twitter.com/oKSRM6uG2C
— RI4A (@RI4A) September 16, 2015Other presidential contenders were paid homage with their own effigies and posters.
.@JebBush joins immigrant community members outside #CNNDebate#NoHateDebate#ImPowerpic.twitter.com/vEni7LhVv7
— Alliance4Citizenship (@Citizenship4All) September 16, 2015We're outside the Republican debate #NoHateDebate#DebateWhatMatterspic.twitter.com/74e4hrGF17
— SEIU USWW (@seiuusww) September 16, 2015Protesters chanted slogans "Nothing Less Than Citizenship" and "No to GOP Hate."
#NoHateDebatepic.twitter.com/YMnI9oRJOl
— Victor Narro (@NarroVictor) September 16, 2015Donald Trump vowed to build a massive border wall and end birthright citizenship for babies born to undocumented immigrants.
.@RI4A - "I'm here at the #CNNDebate because..." #NoHateDebate#ImPowerpic.twitter.com/3qCUtWcT2W
— CHIRLA Action Fund (@chirlafund) September 16, 2015About 200 people protesting outside the #ReaganLibrary#GOPDebate#CNNDebatepic.twitter.com/8JIOgxbqv0
— Benjamin Gottlieb (@benjamin_max) September 16, 2015
