Hundreds of thousands of people in scores of cities across the United States today rallied to oppose legislation in Congress that would make illegal immigration a felony, and among the protesters were many college students, including a number who had traveled en masse to marches and other demonstrations. Following are a few examples that were reported in the news media:

About 100 people held signs in English and Spanish and chanted “We are not criminals!” at a rally organized by the Carolina Hispanic Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Associated Press).

About 250 people marched through the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder (The Campus Press).

About 1,200 college and high-school students walked out of class for a rally at the University of Texas at Austin (Associated Press).

About 300 students gathered at the University of New Mexico around 10 this morning, then marched downtown to Albuquerque (Albuquerque Journal).

Hundreds of people marched along a busy street to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Associated Press).

Student organizers from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and other colleges handed out fliers on Sunday to encourage attendance at today’s rally (KLAS-TV).

Counterprotests materialized at a number of the demonstrations, but college students did not appear to take part in them, to judge from local news reports.