Demonstrations against the immigration crackdown by the Trump administration took place across the United States on Saturday, but a federal judge refused to stop Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota immediately, according to CNN.

The CNN news also stated that huge numbers of protesters took to the streets on the second day of protests, marching across the coasts, demanding that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents leave their cities.

The demonstrations were accompanied by legal loss in Minnesota, where a judge did not stop the federal immigration operation, where thousands of agents have worked in the Twin Cities, despite federal agents being accused of using excessive force and killing two people connected to the federal agents in the case.

Protests continued escalating on Saturday, with the president, Donald Trump, declaring that he had ordered the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, not to intervene in any protest or unrest in the Democratic-led cities under any circumstances whatsoever unless it was formally requested by the local authorities.

As reported by CNN, Minnesota, St. Paul and Minneapolis, the cities also filed a lawsuit against federal officials earlier this month, describing Operation Metro Surge as a federal invasion, warrantless arrests, and the use of excessive force. The reported attack aimed at reasonless undocumented Somali immigrants has both incited tension throughout the weeks between the local and federal government and also sparked confrontations on Minneapolis streets.

“According to the Trump administration, the suit filed in court was an overreach. In other words, the Minnesota administration would prefer to veto the federal police station, the administration”, said in a filing that CNN quoted.

U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez granted the operation to proceed on Saturday as the lawsuit proceeds. Although accepting that there was evidence that federal agents were guilty of racial profiling, excessive use of force and other damaging acts, the judge stated that the costs of disrupting the whole operation must be counterbalanced by the need of the federal government to enforce immigration law.

Menendez remarked that Minnesota authorities would have little success in their argument that the administration had infringed the 10th Amendment, and that a more limited injunction outlawing any arrests of peaceful demonstrators or particular crowd control measures had already been stayed.

According to CNN, the judge said that in case that injunction was excessive, then that injunction would surely be the case in this instance, the whole operation.

“The ruling was welcomed by the Department of Homeland Security, which declared it a victory for public safety and law and order.”

Minnesota officials were disappointed. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey stated that the move did not alter what people had gone through – fear, disruption, and damage created by a federal operation that did not even belong in Minneapolis in the first place. He replied that the city would still move on with the lawsuit.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison followed suit, indicating that the case was still in its infancy and the state would keep adopting creative law tactics that would help safeguard the residents.

In the meantime, CNN added that crowds were still marching in large numbers in downtown Minneapolis in a peaceful manner. A memorial ride was attended by Bikers in honour of a second person killed by federal agents in the city this month, Alex Pretti. The ride was among over 200 memorials all over the 43 states that were conducted this weekend in honour of Pretti and others who were killed by federal agents.

The killing of Pretti and Renee Good has heightened the immigration enforcing debate in the country and seems to have changed the tone of the White House reaction, CNN reported.

Also reported were peaceful demonstrations in Southern California, Oregon, Washington, New York, and Texas, all as a nationwide strike, which started Friday, with empty classrooms, closed businesses, and school walkouts under the banner, “No work, No school, No shopping.”

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz wrote on social media that although residents were discussing the possibility of agents drawdown, they had not seen significant change, saying “actions speak louder than words.”