Demonstrators hit D.C. streets in support of blocking of Trump’s travel ban

Scores of several demonstrators and activists thronged the streets of Washington DC in the US to welcome the latest blocking of President Donald Trump’s proposed plan to bar Muslims from entering America.

While they welcomed the block on the attempt to bar various individuals from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Venezuela from entering the country, protesters gathered in Lafayette Square, next to the White House, for speeches from campaign leaders before marching to the Trump International Hotel.

Read also: Hawaii judge blocks Trump’s travel ban, for third time

The demonstration, dubbed #NoMuslimBanEver, was organised by a coalition of immigration and civil rights organisations.

24-hours ago, the controversial travel ban mooted by Trump was blocked by a federal judge in Hawaii for the third time in a row.

Judge Derrick Watson has found that Trump’s order “plainly discriminates based on nationality” and fails to show that people coming from the listed countries would be” detrimental” to US national interests.

 

 

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