Roughly 70 protesters gathered outside Nashville's U.S. Department of Homeland Security field office on Labor Day to speak out against a joint operation between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Tennessee National Guard.

The protest included remarks from community leaders and activists and saw protesters offer marigolds to DHS officials. Others placed the flowers on the gates of the office and on DHS vehicles. A DHS agent, citing agency policy, removed the banner from the fence but left the flowers.

See photographer Hamilton Matthew Masters' photos above.

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