Massive assemblage gathered astatine the Ocean Beach of Pacific Ocean to protestation ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) successful San Francisco, California connected June 14, 2025 amid protests implicit migration raids.
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Protesting the absorption of the state nether President Donald Trump, radical volition stitchery Saturday successful the nation's superior and communities crossed the U.S. for "No Kings" demonstrations — what the president's Republican Party is calling "Hate America" rallies.
This is the 3rd wide mobilization since Trump's instrumentality to the White House and it is expected to beryllium the largest. It comes against the backdrop of a authorities shutdown that not lone has closed national programs and services, but is investigating the halfway equilibrium of powerfulness arsenic an assertive enforcement confronts Congress and the courts successful ways that organizers pass is simply a descent toward American authoritarianism.
Trump himself is distant from Washington astatine his Mar-a-Lago location successful Florida.
"They accidental they're referring to maine arsenic a king. I'm not a king," Trump said successful a Fox News interrogation airing aboriginal Friday, earlier helium departed for a $1 million-per-plate MAGA Inc. ace PAC fundraiser astatine Mar-a-Lago. Protests are expected adjacent Saturday.
While the earlier protests this twelvemonth — against Elon Musk's cuts successful spring, past to antagonistic Trump's subject parade successful June — drew crowds, organizers accidental this 1 is gathering a much unified absorption enactment movement. Top Democrats specified arsenic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders are joining successful what organizers presumption an antidote to Trump's actions, from the administration's clampdown connected escaped code to its military-style migration raids.
"There is nary greater menace to an authoritarian authorities than patriotic people-power," said Ezra Levin, a co-founder of Indivisible, among the cardinal organizers.
As Republicans and the White House disregard the protests arsenic a rally of radicals, Levin said their ain sign-up numbers are growing. More than 2,600 rallies are planned successful cities ample and small, organized by hundreds of conjugation partners. They said rallies are being planned wrong a one-hour thrust for astir Americans.
Republicans person sought to represent participants successful Saturday's rallies arsenic acold extracurricular the mainstream of American politics, and a main crushed for the prolonged authorities shutdown, present successful its 18th day.
From the White House to Capitol Hill, GOP leaders disparaged the rallygoers arsenic "communists" and "Marxists."
They accidental Democratic leaders, including Schumer, are beholden to the far-left flank and consenting to support the authorities unopen down to appease those wide forces.
"I promote you to ticker — we telephone it the Hate America rally — that volition hap Saturday," said House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.
"Let's spot who shows up for that," Johnson said listing disconnected groups including "antifa types," radical who "hate capitalism" and "Marxists successful afloat display."
Democrats person refused to ballot connected authorities that would reopen authorities arsenic they request backing for wellness care. Republicans accidental they are consenting to sermon the contented later, lone aft authorities reopens.
But for galore Democrats, the authorities closure is besides a mode to basal up to Trump, and effort to propulsion the presidency backmost to its spot successful the U.S. strategy arsenic a co-equal subdivision of the government.
In a Facebook post, Sanders of Vermont, himself a erstwhile statesmanlike contender, said, "It's a emotion America rally."
"It's rally of millions of radical each implicit this state who judge successful our Constitution, who judge successful American state and," helium said, pointing astatine the GOP leadership, "are not going to fto you and Donald Trump crook this state into an authoritarian society."
The concern is simply a imaginable turnaround from conscionable six months ago, erstwhile Democrats and their allies were divided and despondent, unsure astir however champion to respond to Trump's instrumentality to the White House. Schumer successful peculiar was berated by his enactment for allowing an earlier authorities backing measure to sail done the Senate without utilizing it to situation Trump.
In April, the nationalist march against Trump and Elon Musk had 1,300 registered locations. In June, for the archetypal "No Kings" day, determination were 2,100 registered locations. The march Saturday volition person much than 2,600 registered locations, Levin said.
"What we are seeing from the Democrats is immoderate spine," Levin said. "The worst happening the Democrats could bash close present is surrender."
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said helium wasn't definite if helium would articulation the rallygoers Saturday, but helium took contented with the Republicans' characterization of the events.
"What's hateful is what happened connected January 6th," helium said, referring to the 2021 Capitol attack, arsenic Trump's supporters stormed the gathering to protestation Joe Biden's predetermination victory. "What you'll spot this play is what patriotism looks like, radical showing up to explicit absorption to the extremism that Donald Trump has been unleashing connected the American people."
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