New Orleans, Trump and protest
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Thousands of New Orleans demonstrators paraded from the corner of Mandeville and Decatur near the French Quarter to Washington Square Park in opposition to President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration.
According to the No Kings protest website, a total of 11 protests have been planned across Louisiana. At least three of those protests are being planned in the New Orleans area.
Thousands of demonstrators — at least 6,500, organizers estimated — marched through New Orleans on Saturday as part of “No Kings Day,” a coordinated nationwide protest against authoritarianism and political overreach.
Organizers are calling for Americans to attend demonstrations across the country to protest President Trump on his 79th birthday.
The demonstrations come on the heels of protests flaring up around the country over federal immigration enforcement raids that began last week and Trump ordering National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles where protesters blocked a freeway and set cars on fire.