President Donald Trump directed federal officials to expand efforts to deport migrants in the largest US cities in the face of protests and court challenges, even as his administration is looking to ease the impact of the crackdown on key sectors of the American workforce.

Rain didn’t stop thousands of protesters from coming out in New York’s midtown Manhattan. Demonstrators held American flags and signs that said “No Kings” and “I Prefer My Ice Crushed.” Police said they closed about a mile of Fifth Avenue to traffic for the protest.

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Millions of people across the country are expected to join in protest this weekend against Donald Trump’s administration, a movement intended to coincide with the president’s planned military parade in Washington.

About 400 residents of Port Washington braved a downpour to hold a raucous protest against the Trump administration in the politically mixed New York City suburb on Long Island. Amid cars honking in support,

The group rallied near a building that houses an immigration court, which has become a flashpoint amid the arrests of migrants in courthouses.

That’s part of why George Atkinson, a former high school government teacher, felt compelled to join a protest in downtown Houston on Saturday. The 89-year-old affixed a sign to his walker that read, “The clothes have no emperor! He’s all hat and no cattle!”

A New Hampshire woman has been arrested after allegedly assaulting and biting a Trump supporter at a “No Kings” protest in Upstate New York.

Many thousands of protesters jammed the streets around Manhattan’s Bryant Park on Saturday afternoon, defying the drizzle and chanting “No ICE! No KKK! No fascist USA!” before spilling into an enormous march down Fifth Avenue.

"In America, we don't do kings," the No Kings website reads. "They've defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. [cq] No thrones. No crowns. No kings."