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Unions Draw Thousands To May Day March In Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Immigration was the focus for several thousand union members and activists marching in the shadow of some of the biggest resorts on the Las Vegas Strip during a May Day event organized to push back against Trump administration policies.

The loud and colorful demonstration Monday on Las Vegas Boulevard tourists drew stares from tourists from Chicago and Boston and California and remained peaceful through a rally at a vacant lot on Flamingo Road just west of the main tourist corridor.

Led by the locally powerful Culinary Union, hotel workers ending their shifts carried signs including "No Wall" and chanted slogans of solidarity.

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The union says more than half of its 57,000 hotel and restaurant workers are women and Hispanic, and many are fearful of Trump administration efforts to deport people who are in the country illegally.