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Immigrants in Los Angeles are in a desperate rush for citizenship after Donald Trump’s election

In the video above, undocumented workers rushed to the Dolores Mission in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights on Wednesday following the election of Donald Trump. The mission offers a weekly legal clinic to help immigrants gain citizenship. Dozens of people, many of whom have been living in the US for years, came to the clinic in a desperate effort to get legal advice and their papers filed before Trump assumes office.

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