No Kings” demonstrations marched in hundreds of cities on Saturday to protest what organizers describe as President Donald Trump’s authoritarian agenda, including recent immigration raids that have rattled communities across the country.

Thousands gathered in Los Angeles with handmade signs, Colonial costumes and riffs on drag queens, turning the anti-Trump demonstration into a creative spectacle of resistance.

A US Army Desert Storm veteran led a group of Filipino Americans protesting the immigration policies of the Trump administration as part of the nationwide “No Kings Day of Defiance” demonstrations on Saturday.

More than 1,500 events were announced throughout the U.S. to send a loud message to President Donald Trump: “In America, we don’t do kings.”

In Modesto, a rally began at Tenth Street Plaza, organized by the Central Valley Black Indigenous People of Color Coalition. Protesters chanted in solidarity with immigrants, Palestinians, Iranians and the people of Los Angeles, demanding an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the Central Valley and U.S. imperialism.

No Kings is a nationwide protest organized in response to President Trump and his immigration policies. Here are live updates from Florida's rallies.

MONTEREY — More than 5,000 people made their way to Monterey for the “No Kings” rally Saturday afternoon, filling Window by the Bay park and taking over Del Monte Avenue. Participants carried signs and banners, dressed in red, white and blue and waved lots of American flags.

Protesters held signs that read, “No kings since 1776,” “Bad Things Happen When Good People Do Nothing,” “Stop the Parade Fund Medicaid,” “When cruelty becomes normal compassion looks radical” and “Make Orwell Fiction Again.”