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that tens of thousands of suettnds were taking part in the protest that was spreading through schools across the country's second largest city ahead of a US Senate debate on a divisive immigration reform bill. At least 14,000 suettnds are protesting in the streets in Los Angeles city alone, Monica Carazo, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Unified School District told AFP.The latest protest came after one of the biggest protests in recent US history Saturday when more than 500,000 people marched in Los Angeles against the immigration reform bill that would make it a felony criminal offence to be in the United States illegally.Smaller protests took place in a number of cities around the country as well over the weekend and on Monday against the draft laws.Los Angeles pupils pursued the protest Monday by walking out of class in at least 21 schools across the city and its surrounding areas, prompting education officials to lock down some campuses to keep the angry suettnds inside.
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