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Hundreds of protesters assembled on a plaza in North Carolina's capital city, rather, Raleigh, today.

Rusty Jacobs from Member Station WUNC reports it was part of a

nationwide series of demonstrations against Trump administration policies.

Protesters held signs demanding that President Trump and advisor Elon Musk keep their hands off free speech rights

as well as funding for universities and scientific

research. Leah Fowler was one of them. The 25-year-old was a probationary worker at the Environmental

Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development until last week. She left after the Trump

administration proposed major cuts to the agency.

We're trying to protect everybody's children, everybody's family, everybody's drinking water.

You know, it's not a partisan thing.

Fowler said she was heartened by Saturday's turnout.

For NPR News, I'm Rusty Jacobs in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

The Trump administration has reportedly added hundreds of thousands of immigration cases to the national warrants database. It's used by local police. And Pierce Martin

Kosti reports it could lead more local officers to arrest people on behalf of immigration and

customs enforcement or ICE. Federal authorities have long put some immigration warrants into the NCIC or National Crime Information Center.

But the number of immigration warrants has been increased dramatically under President Trump.

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