In photos: Demonstrators hold marches across US in protest against Donald Trump’s immigration policy

Thousands of protestors marched in cities across the United States on Saturday to protest against the Donald Trump administration’s immigration policies. According to a few estimates, more than 700 marches were held in cities from Los Angeles to Washington, DC, and New York, CBS News reported.

Dozens of progressive groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, Move On and the Women’s March organised the “Families belong together” protests. They demanded that the Trump administration end family separations and detentions, and reverse its “zero tolerance” policy.

At the rally in Los Angeles, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who recently asked protestors to heckle Trump and the members of his Cabinet over the immigration policy, said the president had gone too far, CNN reported. “How dare you?” she asked. “How dare you take the babies from mothers’ arms? How dare you take the children and send them all across the country into so-called detention centers?”

Singer John Legend performed a new song called “Preach” at a rally in Los Angeles, and encouraged the crowd to take action for immigration reform. Hollywood star Chadwick Boseman was also present at one such rally in Los Angeles.

Protestors in Washington, DC, booed while passing by the Trump hotel. They shouted “shame, shame, shame” and “hey, hey, ho ho Donald trump has got to go”. They stopped at the Department of Justice and shouted slogans against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who announced the new immigration policy in May.

Protestors marched near Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he is spending the weekend, AP reported. The demonstrators gathered on a street corner near the property displaying signs that read: “Do you know where our children are?” and “Even the Trump family belongs together”.

Last week, 17 states sued the Trump administration in an effort to force officials to reunite migrant families separated at the Mexico border. The states said Trump’s executive order, issued on June 20, to keep families together had caveats and fails to reunite parents and children who have already been separated. They alleged that the administration denied the parents and children due process and their right to seek asylum.

Here are some pictures from the protests: