Shortly after President Trump signed an executive order temporarily barring citizens of seven predominantly Muslim nations, protests arose in airports across the country, where some travelers were being detained. Over the weekend, demonstrators with signs and lawyers offering legal advice jammed airports, while rallies and marches took place in city streets and squares. Gathered here, images from this weekend’s protests against the ban, from New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Seattle, Washington, DC, Dallas, Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia, and more.
A Weekend of Protest Against Trump's Immigration Ban
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Read moreDemonstrators march down Pennsylvania Avenue during a protest on January 29, 2017, in Washington, DC. Protesters in Washington and around the country gathered to protest President Donald Trump's executive order barring the citizens of Muslim-majority countries Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen from traveling to the United States. #
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Read morePeople sit in a tree above protesters carrying signs and chanting in Lafayette Park near the White House during a demonstration on January 29, 2017, in Washington, DC. to denounce President Donald Trump's executive order that bars citizens of seven predominantly Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. #
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Read moreActivists gather outside the Vice President's residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington to protest President Donald Trump's executive order travel ban on January 29, 2017. #
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Read moreA young girl dances with an American flag in baggage claim while women pray behind her during a protest against the travel ban imposed by executive order, at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Dallas, Texas, on January 29, 2017. #
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Read moreEmtisal Bazara cries as she and her husband, Ahmad Bazara, both recent Syrian immigrants, look on on January 29, 2017, in downtown Seattle at a rally to oppose President Donald Trump's travel ban. The couple arrived in the Seattle area with two of their four children in December, four years after leaving Aleppo as refugees. The said that their two adult children have been denied entry because of Trump's order. #
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Read moreDemonstrators march on the lower roadway at Los Angeles International Airport, on January 29, 2017, as protests against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel to the U.S. by citizens of seven countries. #
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Read moreDemonstrators gather outside Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport on January 29, 2017, during a protest against President Donald Trump's travel ban. #
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Read moreA demonstrator wears a Statue of Liberty hat and claps during a January 29, 2017 rally in Boston, Massachusetts, held to protest President Donald Trump's order that restricts travel to the U.S. #
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Read moreA passenger holds a sign out of the sun-roof of a car as it is driven past hundreds of people rallying against a temporary travel ban signed by President Trump, during a protest at Detroit Metropolitan airport in Romulus, Michigan, on January 29, 2017. #
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Read moreAllie Bauer, of Philadelphia, leans against a wall while listening to a Black Lives Matter sit-in during a protest of President Donald Trump's travel ban executive order, on January 29, 2017, at Philadelphia International Airport. #
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Read moreRiot police arrive as activists gather at Portland International Airport in Portland, Oregon, on January 29, 2017, to protest against President Donald Trump's executive action travel ban. #
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Read moreDemonstrators yell slogans as cars drive by during an anti-Donald Trump travel ban protest outside Hatfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia on January 29, 2017. #
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Read moreDemonstrators embrace in front of the arrivals terminal at San Francisco International Airport during demonstrations on January 28, 2017, in San Francisco, against President Donald Trump's executive order. #
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Read moreMayor Bill de Blasio (left) speaks as protesters gather in Battery Park and march to the offices of Customs and Border Patrol in Manhattan to protest President Trump's Executive order imposing controls on travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, on January 29, 2017. #
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Read moreWith One World Trade Center in the background, people march in New York, on January 29, 2017, as they protest against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel to the U.S. by citizens of several countries. #
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Read morePeople participate in a protest against Donald Trump's travel ban outside Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, on January 28, 2017. #
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