Millions protest immigration policies
SACRAMENTO/NEW YORK — Millions of demonstrators took to the streets in the third wave of "No Kings" rallies across the United States on Saturday, protesting policies of the US administration, ranging from military action in Iran to controversial immigration enforcement.
Over 3,100 demonstrations were planned nationwide and staged in major US cities such as Washington, DC, New York, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco. US media reports said the protests involved some 900,000 people, making it the largest single-day protest event on record.
"No Kings" organizers said the previous two rounds of peaceful rallies drew more than 5 million people in June and 7 million in October 2025.
On Saturday, the flagship rally was held at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, where nearly 100,000 people participated despite the chilly weather, organizers said. The State Patrol confirmed at least 50,000 participants.
The protests were mainly against the US military action in Iran, the January deaths of two US citizens involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis, and what the organizers described as the excessive power of the current US administration, according to organizers.
Multiple demonstrators were arrested for not dispersing from an area near a federal prison, the Los Angeles Police Department posted on social media. Federal authorities had deployed tear gas canisters at a crowd after some people threw objects over a fence, police said.
Organizing groups included Indivisible, MoveOn, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
The Indivisible nonprofit's co-executive director, Leah Greenberg, said Friday on the broadcast program Democracy Now! that Minnesota represented "the occupation of an American city, the unleashing of a reign of terror and racial profiling, that was pushed back by organized, nonviolent, disciplined people power".
US independent Senator Bernie Sanders, a politician from Vermont state and headline speaker at the St. Paul flagship event, sharply criticized US policies, noting US citizens were lied to about the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, "and we are being lied to today about the war in Iran. This war must end immediately".
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz also addressed the crowd. Referring to the ICE shootings and resulting fatalities in January, he said: "We demand justice for Renee Good and Alex Pretti. We will never forget what they did here."
Protesters held up a massive sign on the Capitol steps reading, "We had whistles, they had guns. The revolution starts in Minneapolis."
In New York City, protests took place across all five boroughs of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. In Manhattan, tens of thousands of protesters marched along Seventh Avenue on Saturday afternoon, stretching more than 10 blocks, chanting slogans and carrying signs reading "No ICE", "No Kings" and "No Wars".
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