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Donald Trump has pulled off a shock US election win after channelling Brexit style forces to defeat establishment candidate Hillary Clinton.
Clinton went into election day with a lead in the polls, but confidence in her becoming America’s first female President rapidly disappeared as results started coming in.
She gave a concession speech at around 4.30pm GMT.
In a victory speech Trump dropped the vitriol of his campaign and vowed to “bind the wounds of division”, but angry crowds burned flags and chanted “not our President”.
He will visit President Obama tomorrow at the White House as he enjoys congratulations from world leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin – by telegram – and British Prime Minister Theresa May.
In Los Angeles, California, which overwhelming voted for Clinton, there’s been a huge turnout for the anti-Trump protest tonight.
The crowd has moved through downtown LA and even forced the closure of the 110 freeway.
It has been largely peaceful, though there have been reporters of some more aggressive protesters clashing with police and tagging obscenities on buildings and vehicles.
Immigrants have been speaking of their fears of being deported after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.
Omar Castillo, 35 and Erica Garcia, 40, are originally from Cuactla, Morelos, Mexico.
They entered the United States with their son Ulises, 17, and daughter Yesenia, 10, in 2006 without immigration papers.
Their three year-old daughter Alma was born in the United States and is a citizen.
“Our kids are used to living here; their future is here, rather than moving to our home country. We would face poverty. Often, there are no jobs or even food,” said Garcia.
Facing deportation for the last three years, Castillo reports to immigration once a month and is monitored by phone every Friday when he needs to be home between 8:00pm-10:00pm to speak to a probation officer.
“If I get deported and sent to Mexico, I really worry, particularly for the little one, she is very close to me,” he said.
“I worry about what will happen if my husband is deported. I don’t have a job, my kids, what am I going to do? Leave the country with them, what else?” said Garcia.
A number of fires have been lit and police have reportedly fired tear gas in Oakland, California, to disperse a Trump protest.
It is believed it was declared ‘unlawful assembly’.
The scene turned ugly in the past hour or so.
The fires have been lit in the middle of roads, using trash or wood from a construction site, it has been claimed.
Actress and Amy Schumer has taken to Instagram to respond to Donald Trump’s election win.
She was among some of the rich and famous who back Hillary Clinton and promised to leave the US if Trump won.
In a lengthy post, she slammed those who were now calling for her to leave and vowed to battle the result adding: “Today we grieve, tomorrow we begin again.”
An effigy of Donald Trump’s head is being burned in Los Angeles.
Thousands have gathered in front of city hall armed with signs and banners.
In New York, thousands of protesters filled streets in midtown Manhattan as they made their way to Trump Tower, Trump’s gilded home on Fifth Avenue.
Hundreds of others gathered at a Manhattan park and shouted “Not my president
Two weeks before the results of the US elections, Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot posted a video showing now president-elect Donald Trump winning the election and what life would be like under his administration.
However, the Russian activist and musician says her intention was not merely to be prophetic.
“I didn’t believe until the last point that he would actually win and the goal of the music video was to warn people and share my experience with living with Vladimir Putin with Americans who about to vote for Trump.”
Tolokonnikova continues to be an outspoken critic of the Russian president and was one of the two Pussy Riot members who was sent to prison in Russia following a performance at a cathedral in Moscow.
She was also one of the members of the group who was attacked by Cossacks in Sochi during an appearance at the Winter Olympics in 2014.
Currently living in Los Angeles, she’s turned her attention to advocating for human rights in the United States.
“The important part about freedoms is that they can easily be taken away from you and you shouldn’t be cocky about your freedoms,” she told Reuters.
“I think a lot of American people think they have freedoms and that they will never lose them and they would say that our country is free and that other countries are not.”
Jamie Tomkins, from Q13 Fox, says there is a “massive” scene involving the emergency services.
She reports there’s a “shooter on the loose”.
The channel is also reporting the shooting is NOT related to the Trump protest.
Here’s a flavour of some of the protests continuing in Oregon and New York city at the moment.
So far there have been no reports of arrests or violence.
“I’m just really terrified about what is happening in this country,” said 22-year-old Adriana Rizzo in Chicago, who was holding a sign that read:
“Enjoy your rights while you can.”
A representative of the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the protests.
In his victory speech, Trump said he would be president for all Americans, saying: “It is time for us to come together as one united people.”
Earlier this month, his campaign rejected the support of a Ku Klux Klan newspaper and said that “Mr. Trump and his campaign denounces hate in any form.”
Here’s a list of where we know of anti-Trump protests so far today:
New York
Boston
Des Moines
Detroit
Philadelphia
Washington
Austin
Chicago
Los Angeles
Oakland
Oregon
San Francisco
Seattle
New Orleans
There’s also talk of more starting soon in other cities.
Immigrant workers across the US have been reporting taunts and harassment and children begged to be brought home from school amid ethnic or religious bullying, parents and teachers said today.
People took to social media to voice their anger and concerns, and rights organisations fielded calls from worried people seeking advice.
Parents and many advocates, meanwhile, worked to calm people down.
While Trump could undo some of Democratic President Barack Obama’s legacy on immigration through executive orders, many of the Republican’s promises would require the cooperation of Congress and likely face court challenges.
Experts have also cautioned that finding and deporting the country’s 11 million illegal immigrants would carry enormous logistic and financial costs.
Among those for whom concern about deportation is the greatest are young people who are in the United States on a program started under an order from Obama that is opposed by many Congressional Republicans.
To request protection from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields young people brought to the United States as children from deportation, applicants must send the government a form with their parents’ names and addresses.
Obama enacted the program through executive order after a Republican-controlled Congress blocked the Dream Act.
“The government now has a list of people who are here without documentation – their names, their addresses, how long they’ve been here, where they work,” said California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, a Democrat from San Diego who has been fielding calls from constituents all day.
In Chicago, police have just taken the decision to block off protesters at the bridge to Trump Tower.
“I want this to be a show that we’re still here, to show there are still good people in this country,” said Emily Marlowe told the Chicago Tribune.
“We’ll be here every day if we have to.”
“We don’t want a president who hates,” said Gloria Ortega.
“We don’t want a racist, sexist, xenophobe.”
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