反トランプ大規模デモ、米各地で再び

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】ドナルド・トランプ米大統領とその強硬政策に抗議する大規模デモが１９日、ニューヨークやワシントンなど米各地で行われた。本格的な反トランプ・デモとしては、今月５日に続き、２度目となった。（写真は、米ホワイトハウス近くで、ドナルド・トランプ大統領とその政策に抗議するデモ参加者）
　ニューヨークでは、市の主要な図書館の外に人々が集まり、「米国に王はいらない」「専制に抵抗せよ」といったスローガンを掲げた。
　多くの人々がトランプ氏による不法移民の強制送還に反対し、「ＩＣＥ（移民・関税執行局）はいらない、恐れるな、移民はここで歓迎される」と唱えた。
　ホワイトハウスの外でベンジャミン・ダグラスさん（４１）はＡＦＰに、トランプ政権は「法の支配という理念と、米国に住む人々に対する虐待を政府は抑制すべきだという理念に直接、攻撃を仕掛けている」と語った。
　パレスチナ支持の学生抗議者で、先月逮捕されたマフムード・カリルさんの釈放を求める看板を持ち、カフィーヤ（頭巾）をかぶったダグラスさんは、特定の個人が「外国人嫌悪をあおり、長年の法的保護を侵食するためのテストケースとして選ばれている」と話した。
　ニューヨークのデモに参加したホロコースト生存者の娘、キャシー・バリーさん（７３）は、ナチス・ドイツの指導者アドルフ・ヒトラーが権力の座に上り詰めたのとまさに同じことが、「この地で起きている」と語った。
　「ただ一つ言えるのは、トランプはヒトラーや他のファシストよりもはるかに愚かだということだ」「彼（トランプ氏）は操られている。そして彼自身のチームも分裂している」と付け加えた。
　デモを呼び掛けた団体「５０５０１」は、約４００か所でデモが計画されたとしている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/04/21-16:59）

Thousands of protesters rallied Saturday in New York, Washington and other cities across the United States for a second major round of demonstrations against Donald Trump and his hard-line policies.
In New York, people gathered outside the city's main library carrying signs targeting the US president with slogans like No Kings in America and Resist Tyranny.
Many took aim at Trump's deportations of undocumented migrants, chanting No ICE, no fear, immigrants are welcome here, a reference to the role of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in rounding up migrants.
In Washington, protesters voiced concern that Trump was threatening long-respected constitutional norms, including the right to due process.
The administration is carrying out a direct assault on the idea of the rule of law and the idea that the government should be restrained from abusing the people who live here in the United States, Benjamin Douglas, 41, told AFP outside the White House.
Wearing a keffiyeh and carrying a sign calling for the freeing of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian student protester arrested last month, Douglas said individuals were being singled out as test cases to rile up xenophobia and erode long-standing legal protections.
We are in a great danger, said 73-year-old New York protester Kathy Valy, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, adding that their stories of how Nazi leader Adolf Hitler rose to power are what's happening here.
The one thing is that Trump is a lot more stupid than Hitler or than the other fascists, she said. He's being played... and his own team is divided.
- 'Science ignored' -
Daniella Butler, 26, said she wanted to call attention specifically to the defunding of science and health work by the government.
Studying for a PhD in immunology at Johns Hopkins University, she was carrying a map of Texas covered with spots in reference to the ongoing measles outbreak there.
Trump's health chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic, spent decades falsely linking the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) jab to autism.
When science is ignored, people die, Butler said.
In deeply conservative Texas, the coastal city of Galveston saw a small gathering of anti-Trump demonstrators.
This is my fourth protest and typically I would sit back and wait for the next election, said 63-year-old writer Patsy Oliver. We cannot do that right now. We've lost too much already.
On the West Coast, several hundred people gathered on a beach in San Francisco to spell out the words IMPEACH + REMOVE, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Others nearby held an upside-down US flag, traditionally a symbol of distress.
Organizers hope to use building resentment over Trump's immigration crackdown, his drastic cuts to government agencies and his pressuring of universities, news media and law firms, to forge a lasting movement.
The chief organizer of Saturday's protests -- the group 50501, a number representing 50 protests in 50 states and one movement -- said some 400 demonstrations were planned.
Its website said the protests are a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies -- and it insisted on all protests being non-violent.
The group called for millions to take part Saturday, though turnout appeared smaller than the Hands Off protests across the country on April 5.