Friday, February 3, 2017

New York City anti-immigration ban protest

I interviewed several protesting members of New York's Yemeni community this afternoon, February 1, 2017, at the Manhattan Borough Hall, and they confirmed they would close 1,000 grocery stores and bodegas on February 2, 2017 in protest of President Trump's executive order banning travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries. 

Residents of the seven countries named in the executive order who are not U.S. citizens are prohibited from traveling to the United States for 90 days.
The shutdown will affect a large number of bodegas citywide, as many are owned by Yemeni-Americans or immigrants from the country.

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