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Looked like maybe 15-20% of smaller businesses in my area were closed. My friends who employ 'immigrants' told me that everyone showed up today for work.

I hear the freeways were pretty clear. I also heard that there were still day laborers standing in the usual spots, available for work -- but a lot fewer than usual. I didn't see any of the usual catering trucks out today, but I wasn't out much, either.

The L.A. port was closed today, according to one of the local 'yell radio' stations. They had correspondents at one of the demonstrations with maybe 300,000 people and sounded disappointed that there were no 'incidents.' They said Geraldo Rivera (born Jerry Rivers) was riding through the crowd on a motorcycle for some reason.

When I drove by the NoHo subway station, I saw three young men getting out of a fairly new Land Rover with Mexican flags. They gave me kind of an embarrassed look.