Thousands Protest in US and Mexico for 43 Missing University Students: Strikes Planned in Mexico City, New York, Los Angeles

The disappearance of 43 missing students in Mexico sparked national protests throughout Mexico and the United States over the weekend, Al Jazeera reports.

"We want to warn that these acts of protest will not be silenced while the civil and human rights of our Mexican brothers continue to be violated and trampled on by a government that has colluded with organized crime and to those who blamed the crimes committed by the state on cartels -- thereby evading their own responsibility in the state sponsored genocide that has been committed with total impunity," #YoSoy123NY, the New York chapter of a Mexican social movement that opposes Mexico's current government, said in a statement.

Thousands of people marched in the streets in Mexico City Sunday. The protests filled the streets and took over highway tollbooths between Mexico City and Acapulco.

Protest marches are being held, and a national strike is set to begin in Mexico City and across dozens of cities in the U.S., including New York City and Los Angeles on Thursday.

"We are sending caravans to Chiapas, to Morelos and also to states in the north. Then we will all congregate in Mexico City on the 20th," Ayotzinapa students told Fox News Latino about the national protest coming up.

The national strike plans to discover a safe return of the missing students from Ayotzinapa Normal School. The students were last seen in Iguala after conducting a fundraiser and were rounded up by the police.

As Mexico strikes, supporters in New York City will march from the Mexican consulate to the United Nations get justice for the Ayotzinapa students.

Since the students from Guerrero state disappeared, a series of mass protests and university strikes broke out as parents demanded the government find their children. The relatives and classmates of the missing Ayotzinapa students have been spreading awareness across the city to let people know of the state's corruption.

Parents continue to search for their children despite allegations that all of them have been killed, burned and thrown into a river.