McDonald's shuts branches across US during 'Day Without Immigrants' protest against Donald Trump

McDonald’s outlets across the United States, along with hundreds of other restaurants and businesses, closed their doors on Thursday as protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies swept the country.

The Day Without Immigrants protest, for which support was largely drummed online, urged



foreign-born workers to refuse to participate in the US economy for a day.

Schools, restaurants and grocery stores shut across the country, in a direct response to Mr Trump’s promise to seal the southern US-Mexico border and his suspended ban on citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries.