Cities across the country are preparing for major demonstrations, strikes, and disruptions as International Workers Day, or May Day, has often drawn thousands of protestors advocating for workers’ rights and immigration reform.

Several protests are planned for New York, including a call to skip work to instead occupy Union Square and participate in a march in Manhattan. A march to the White House is also organized in Washington, D.C.

Protestors on the West Coast have promised to shut down Los Angeles, where past May Day protests focusing on immigration has drawn tens of thousands of people. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the force is on maximum deployment for today.

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For the first time in decades, the population of Mexican immigrants, in the country both legally and illegally, has drastically dropped as many return to Mexican after finding few job opportunities in America.

According to the Pew Hispanic Center, the population of illegal Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. dropped to 6.1 million from 7 million just five years ago. Between 2005 and 2010, nearly 1.4 million Mexicans left the U.S. while Mexicans entering the country dropped to 1.4 million– canceling out net migration between the two nations.

Arrests at the border has also dropped tremendously. In 2005, one million immigrants were captured crossing the border; in 2011, the figures dropped to 286,000.

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This week Alabama’s House of Representatives passed a new revision of its controversial immigration law, which supporters say makes the bill more enforceable. Now the bill will go to the Senate for approval before going into effect.

Some of the changes to the bill include exempting schools from reporting their students’ immigration status, suspending businesses’ licenses for 100 days (up from 60) for hiring an illegal immigrant, and giving churches more latitude for ministering illegal immigrants.

However, critics of the bill say the revisions do nothing to help avoid practices that could lead to racial profiling and discrimination.

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