At parks, coffee shops, churches and government buildings around the country, hundreds of groups are gathering today with a simple message: “Stop the Trump takeover.”

Tension leading up to the protests has risen due to reported incidents of ICE visiting “sensitive locations,” following Trump’s reversal of a Biden-era policy that prohibited agents from entering into schools, places of worship and health care facilities in January.

President Trump said he wants to extend the police takeover in D.C. past 30 days, which requires Congress to pass legislation.

Law enforcement officers turned a busy intersection in a mixed residential-commercial area of Washington, D.C., into a police checkpoint.

This weekend, people in Washington, D.C., have been adapting to their police department being under federal control as the Trump administration has taken over policing.

While the president lacks the authority to take federal control of local police departments, he may be able to send troops, depending on a federal case in California.

Pine Hill: 500 West Branch Ave. (Across from Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia), noon to 3 p.m. Cape May: Cape May Courthouse, 1 to 3 p.m. (Hosted by Cape May County United)

Protesters marched to the White House on Saturday as D.C. Metropolitan Police officers and National Park Service police looked on from a distance.

A Facebook posting promoting the rally said, "Our movement is rooted in non-violence, but it is far from passive."

The left-wing district attorney of Philadelphia scolded President Donald Trump, claiming the decision to use the National Guard was authoritarian.