Last month, I photographed a protest and counter-protest for Agence France-Presse.

While I was excited for the work I was to create for AFP, I wasn't excited to see people clash in public, once again. These scenes have become increasingly commonplace in America since November 8. This protest stood out to me. There have been so many protests it feels as though the circus of the campaign trail never ended. Or will never end. This protest had a strange disconnect happening between the sides, in ways, it seemed they both had similar end goals, yet they disagreed vehemently on the means to that end. Most people agreed that they wanted constitutional, transparent pathways to citizenship. And they wanted to scream it at each other.

There have been fast judicial actions to both of Trump's immigration ban executive orders, the most recent, by U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii, just hours before the second order was to begin.

It seems to be a constant battle now between the president and the courts to see whose check holds the most balance. The ball is in the court's hands, with their decisions preventing the executive order from going into effect, at least for now.

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