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.”

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

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.

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.

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

A day after President Donald Trump moved to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, District Attorney Larry Krasner warned the president against taking similar actions in Philadelphia.

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.

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