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Sancho

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Sat Apr 19, 2025, 10:14 PM Saturday

Tampa Bay anti-Trump protesters keep showing up. Here's why [View all]

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/04/19/tampa-bay-anti-trump-protesters-keep-showing-up-heres-why/

Hundreds of demonstrators flocked to downtown St. Petersburg Saturday afternoon, waving signs, chanting and voicing their disapproval for America’s 47th president.

It was the second major protest in April for a coalition of groups led locally by the Pinellas chapter of the National Organization of Women. On April 5, hundreds more came out in similar demonstrations that were part of the nationwide “Hands Off!” protest movement that saw millions of Americans take to the streets.

Among the protesters’ grievances: The Trump administration’s move to slash the size of the federal workforce; its apparent disregard for due process when deporting people it says are in the country illegally; and Florida’s six-week abortion ban, which many attribute to Trump’s appointment of the conservative Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Particularly alarming to her is the Trump administration’s immigration policy. Around the country, officials have revoked the legal status of numerous immigrants here legally.




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