The new President Donald Trump is already implementing his policy of drastically limiting immigration, provisions that New Yorkers denounce.
More than a thousand people demonstrated in New York on Wednesday evening to denounce the anti-immigration measures of new President Donald Trump.
“New York is for everyone. Protesters from all backgrounds gathered peacefully after 5 p.m. (11 p.m. in Paris) in Washington Square Park, south of Manhattan. “No ban! No wall! New York is for everyone,” chanted the participants in the demonstration, which occupied almost all of the place. Numerous placards called for the defense of the rights of Muslims, and the continuation of the reception of refugees from Syria or other Muslim countries in the throes of conflict.
Demonstrations to “defend our communities”. “It’s really scary,” said Thariha Choudbury, a Muslim from Bangladesh. “Since he | Trump]was elected, I really feel like Islamophobia has increased, and this can only continue because he has empowered racists in this country.” “I am married to an immigrant, my friends are immigrants (…). We are a city of immigrants and we must defend our communities,” said another demonstrator, Austin Guillem.
Building a wall, expulsion and restriction of visas. Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an immigration decree providing for, as promised during his campaign, the erection of a wall between the United States and Mexico, and depriving of federal funds the cities that refuse to cooperate with the orders of deportation of illegal immigrants from the federal immigration services. He could sign yet another decree limiting access to the United States for refugees and visa holders from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, according to the American media.
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