More than 600 rallies across the U.S., and some outside the country, were taking place on Saturday in protest of thousands of children that have been separated from their families.
The protests are a response to President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy on illegal immigration that has led to the recent detention of more than 2,300 children.
Marches and rallies sponsored by the movement The Families Belong Together March were already getting under way early Saturday with organizers at an event in D.C. speculating that as many as 30,000 people would descend on the nation’s capital.
On Wednesday, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to end the family-separation policies and reunite children with their families within 30 days.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the process of bringing children back to their caretakers and families who had crossed the U.S.’s southern border to seek asylum hadn’t begun after Trump signed an executive order back on June 20 to end the family-separation practices.
MSNBC on Saturday estimated that as few as six children among the thousands had been reunited thus far. Some 2,047 children are still in custody, MSNBC reported.
Rallies kicked off at 11 a.m. Eastern Time, with protests scheduled in all 50 states, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as European cities, London and Berlin.
On Saturday Trump tweeted his support of ICE workers, or those that work for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which have been at the center of the immigrant response:
To the great and brave men and women of ICE, do not worry or lose your spirit. You are doing a fantastic job of keeping us safe by eradicating the worst criminal elements. So brave! The radical left Dems want you out. Next it will be all police. Zero chance, It will never happen!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2018
