International Migrants Day march planned in Los Angeles on Thursday
Source: USA Today
Dec. 17, 2025, 7:05 p.m. ET
Southern Californians traveling through Los Angeles may see a march and rally along Wilshire Boulevard on Thursday, Dec. 18.
It’s part of International Migrants Day, and it’s likely the most important one in the past five years, said Oscar Zarate, director of external affairs for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights — CHIRLA is among the organizations involved in Thursday’s rally.
Participants will meet at the intersection of Vermont Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard in Koreatown, Los Angeles, and the march will proceed through MacArthur Park to a nearby Home Depot. The march and rally's location is purposeful: “traversing the streets of Los Angeles in communities heavily impacted by recent ICE raids,” according to organizers.
The importance behind this move is, in part, to communicate to community members not to be “scared,” countering what Zarate said is part of the Trump administration’s goal: Using fear to make people opt to self-deport. “Choosing those locations is a way of us saying, ‘No, that these spaces are ours. We’re reclaiming them,’” Zarate said. “And that people should not be in fear or be so in fear that they’re not leaving their homes.”
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/california/2025/12/17/international-migrants-day-2025-march-rally-los-angeles/87812268007/