Several pro-DACA protestors gathered to challenge the travel ban at Foley Square, in Federal District downtown on Wednesday, PIX11 News reported.
Chanting “U.S.A.!, U.S.A.!, U.S.A.!,” the people who gathered for the rally demonstrated their patriotism and displayed American flags of all sizes.
“Donald Trump, we’re as American as you,” said one of the protestors. Several of these protestors had shut their businesses on February 2 too to protest against President Trump’s executive order for the travel ban.
Earlier this month, a federal court judge blocked the travel ban. After hearing the suits filed by different groups, Judge James Robart of the Western District of Washington agreed that the travel ban put into place by the administration restricted refugees to reunite with their family members in the US.
However, Supreme Court is yet to take a final decision on the executive order. Several protestors, meanwhile, narrated their plight in the light of the executive order.
“I’m an American citizen,” Salim Shalwish said. “I’ve been an American citizen since 2005.” Shalwish said that a year ago, he received a letter from the State Department that their teenage children could join them in the US. “We got the congratulation letter saying the [U.S.] visa would be issued in two days,” he recalls.
But, that day never came and his son, 13, and daughter, 16, could not join them. “They’re always crying,” said Shalwish. “My wife’s always crying.”
Trump administration officials say that nationals from the banned countries, which are predominantly Muslim, should be restricted till the time “additional entrance screening measures can be implemented,” the write up said.
Each protestor, meanwhile, has a story to tell. “We believe in the justice of America,” expresses Reem Al Harazi, a Queens resident.