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As holiday revelers filtered through City Hall Plaza, a throng of 100 protestors gathered to condemn the Trump administration’s hardline immigration actions before marching to the Boston Common.

A group of elected officials gathered in the South End Monday afternoon to honor Puerto Rican veterans who died in the line of duty, with some politicians contrasting the act of honoring military service against President Donald Trump’s first months in the White House.