LAWTON — For a few hours on Saturday, Fort Sill was thrust into the throes of a heated national debate on immigration as protesters marched to an entrance to the military post.

Hundreds of protesters, who were opposed to housing migrant children at Fort Sill, blocked one of the post’s entrances for more than an hour in a show of force against current federal immigration policies.

The protest included a diverse group of people from six states and various backgrounds.

Taking part in the protest were more than a dozen local and national groups, including members of Native American tribes, Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City, the Oklahoma branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, Dream Action Oklahoma, a grassroots group of Japanese Americans called Tsuru for Solidarity and more than two dozen Buddhist priests from across the country.