Anti-Trump protests will unfold across all three South Florida counties this weekend amid heightened nationwide unrest over the president’s deportation program.
The “No Kings” protests, planned to coincide with President Donald Trump’s birthday on Saturday, are expected to draw thousands of people in several locations from Miami to West Palm Beach. They come as the nation’s attention turns to Los Angeles, where ICE raids set off widespread pro-immigrant protests that blocked roads and led Trump to mobilize the National Guard and the Marines.
Saturday’s protests, unfolding nationwide, were planned a month prior to the events in L.A. and are scheduled to take place on the same day as Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C. The South Florida protests are planned in conjunction with local police and are expected to be peaceful and orderly, organizers say, though they have taken on new significance in the past few days.
Gov. Ron DeSantis alluded to the weekend protests at a news conference focused on “law and order” Tuesday while saying the events unfolding in L.A. would not take place in Florida.