No Kings, Trump and Protest
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The Department of Homeland Security clapped back at a “bizarre" anti-ICE protest that drew several hundred nude demonstrators who bared it all outside a Portland ICE facility on Sunday.
Department of Homeland Security officials called the protest an “unsightly” attempt to obstruct law enforcement.
Organizers estimated 20,000 people attended the first “No Kings” protest in Denver last June, and anticipate at least 12,000 to join on Saturday.
Costumes have been worn as political symbols for decades, but animal outfits have become especially popular at anti-ICE demonstrations in Portland.
A protest is planned in Jackson as a second round of demonstrations against President Donald Trump and his administration. “No Kings” rallies are planned in 100 locations around Michigan for Saturday,
Belgian police have fired tear gas to disperse tens of thousands of protesters in Brussels. The protest was against Prime Minister Bart De Wever's proposed austerity measures.
Andry Rajoelina was toppled in a military coup that capped weeks of youth protests over poverty, power outages, and a lack of opportunity in the Indian Ocean island country.
The demonstrations, organized by Belgium’s major trade unions, oppose austerity proposals that would affect pensions and other social welfare.
Republicans are optimistic that the protests being held by left-wing activists outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in Chicago and Portland will do more to drum up support for the Trump administration than Democrats’ progressive agenda.