Thousands of demonstrators — at least 6,500, organizers estimated — marched through New Orleans on Saturday as part of “No Kings Day,” a coordinated nationwide protest against authoritarianism and political overreach. Organizers framed the event as a rejection of that sort of imperialism, of billionaire-first politics, and the increasing militarization of public life. “It’s about the kind of country we want to be tomorrow.”In New Orleans, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents made national headlines in April when they swiftly deported a Honduran mother along with her two-year-old American citizen daughter. New Orleans protesters gathered at Mandeville and Decatur Streets before concluding in Faubourg Marigny with a rally at Washington Square Park on Elysian Fields Avenue. Dusky Waters: “One day, we will be ancestors.