‘I am a child of refugees’: New Yorkers stage tent protest of Trump travel ban

[Wireless News]

http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/8Wl2zTco.rranSTqPwFvOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/95d3693eab5a5b17e4561bb7c7d99bf9 (https://www.yahoo.com/news/i-am-a-child-of-refugees-new-yorkers-stage-tent-protest-of-trump-travel-ban-160244733.html)Trump’s initial travel ban was met with a swift backlash and stymied by the courts. “We’re spending just one night here and we can always go inside if we get cold, if we get wet, but refugees don’t have that option available to them,” said Amaha Kassa, executive director of African Communities Together, as rain began to beat down on the makeshift tent city. “Trump’s executive orders are going to cut the heart out of these programs,” said Kassa, who came to the U.S. from Ethiopia at age 4 as an asylum seeker.



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