Saturday marks the first full day of Marines on duty in Los Angeles, one week after protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids ignited in LA.

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.”

Protests over President Trump's immigration enforcement raids and his mobilization of the Marines and National Guard in Los Angeles have spread to other major U.S. cities.

The first 200 U.S. Marines out of a battalion of 700 have arrived in Los Angeles, joining National Guard troops already deployed to the city by the Trump administration. At 12 p.m. local time, they went on duty patrolling outside the Wilshire Federal Building in the city’s Civic Center.

Gen. Scott Sherman, the commander overseeing thousands of troops deployed by President Donald Trump in Los Angeles, said 200 Marines will begin guarding the Wilshire Federal Building at noon local time.