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After more than 1 million people came out in Los Angeles protesting anti-immigrant federal legislation in March, the immigrant rights protest arrived in the Bay Area with this rally in San Francisco's Mission District. Over 5,000 people, including entire families with children in tow, gathered on 16th and Mission Streets and marched towards 24th Street through the heart of the Latino neighborhood, chanting "Si, se puede" and waving American flags.

In one of the largest protests in the Bay Area in support of immigrant rights, tens of thousands, among them many women and children, marched through downtown San Francisco on the "Day Without Immigrants / Dia Sin Inmigrantes," a protest against an immigrant reform bill in Congress that aims to make illegal immigration an aggrevated felony and proposes the building of a 700-mile fence on the U.S.-Mexican border. Many people feel the bill is a reflection of the conservative strategy to scapegoat immigrants as a source of the country's problems and to deflect attention away from the Bush administration's foreign policy failures.