Article snippet: Tens of thousands of people flooded downtown Washington, D.C., on Saturday in protest of the Trump administration's immigration policies as took a defiant tone in a tweet amid the protests on Saturday afternoon, writing, "When people come into our Country illegally, we must IMMEDIATELY escort them back out without going through years of legal maneuvering." "Our laws are the dumbest anywhere in the world. Republicans want Strong Borders and no Crime. Dems want Open Borders and are weak on Crime!" Trump tweeted while at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., for the weekend. Saturday's protests were organized to fight three main tenets: family separation policies, family detention policies and the zero-tolerance policy started under Trump that drove the uptick in children separated from their parents at the border. Organizations also demanded that the president reunite all separated children with their parents within the deadlines assigned by a California federal judge earlier this week. “We want people to be reunited but then not detained at all,” Ashley Allison, the executive vice president of protests and campaigns for The Leadership Conference, said in a phone interview. “And then not deported either, for that matter.” Protesters were instructed to attend the event dressed in all white in order to demonstrate a united front. “We’re hoping to send a strong message to the administration that we will not allow for these atrocities and attacks on children and familie... Link to the full article to read more