More Than a Million March in the U.S.

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LOS ANGELES -- Far from the boisterous streets where more than 1 million illegal immigrants and their supporters marched Monday, many of the restaurants, factories and construction sites they boycotted stood silent.

Kitchens that normally serve food were empty. Meat-processing plants came to a halt. Fields were barren of workers. Truckers avoided the nation's largest shipping port, and tens of thousands of students skipped school.

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More Than a Million March in the U.S.

Despite divisions over whether the "Day Without Immigrants" sent the right message to lawmakers mulling reforms to federal law, the impact of the economic boycott was evident, though hardly uniform, at workplaces...

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