Protest of Trump travel ban builds near Statue of Liberty
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NEW YORK — Standing in sight of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, demonstrators on Sunday packed New York City’s Battery Park to demand an end to President Donald Trump’s ban on travellers from seven majority Muslim nations.
The big crowd gathered Sunday near the ferries that carry visitors to the statue and the island, the place where 12 million people entered the United States in the golden age of immigration. They carried signs saying “America was built by refugees,” and “Muslim ban is un-American.”
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio invoked America’s immigration history in speaking out against Trump’s executive order.
“Forty per cent of all Americans can trace their origins to those who went through Ellis Island,” he said. “I’ll tell you one thing they’d say to us, ‘We’re all human beings, we came to this country for freedom, we came to this country because it’s a beacon. We will not let that beacon be put out by Donald Trump.’”
