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Protests vigils
Continued from front
“People need to wake up, beneath a statue of the
recognize that and resist it Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
as fearlessly as it needs to in City Park and marched
be done,” said Carl Dix, a about two miles to the
leader of the Refuse Fas- state Capitol. In Fort Col-
cism group organizing lins, Colorado, marchers
demonstrations in New chanted “Everyone is wel-
York, San Francisco and come here. No hate, no
other cities. fear.” One demonstrator’s
“This can’t be allowed sign said, “Make racists
to fester and to grow be- ashamed again.”
cause we’ve seen what In New York, protesters
happened in the past marched from several lo-
when that was allowed.” cations in Manhattan to
“It has to be confronted,” Trump Tower, demanding
said Dix, a New Yorker who the president denounce
spoke by phone from Char- white nationalist groups in-
lottesville Sunday after- volved in the violent con-
noon. He had gone there frontations in Charlottes-
to witness and deplore the ville. One sign read: “Call
white nationalist rally on a out evil.”
Saturday that spiraled into Helen Rubenstein, 62, was
bloodshed. among hundreds of peo-
In Seattle, a rally previously ple who marched through
planned for Sunday by the downtown Los Angeles.
conservative pro-Trump She said her parents were
group known as Patriot Holocaust survivors, and
Prayer drew hundreds of she’s worried that extremist
counter protesters. views were becoming nor-
A barricade separated the mal under Trump’s presi-
two groups as police of- dency.
ficers stood by dressed in “I blame Donald Trump 100
black riot gear. At one in- percent because he em- throwing punches, hurling around piles of flowers that The White House later add-
tersection, police ordered boldened all these people
crowds to disperse. to incite hate, and they are
The Seattle Times reported now promoting violence
that officers used pepper and killing,” Rubenstein
spray on some marchers. said.
It wasn’t immediately clear Charlottesville descended
how many people had into violence Saturday af-
been arrested. ter neo-Nazis, skinheads,
In Denver, several hundred Ku Klux Klan members and
demonstrators gathered other white nationalists
APNewsBreak: Grandmother in travel ban lawsuit arrives in U.S.
U.S. NEWS Monday 14 august 2017
Unite the Right rally organizer Jason Kessler is escorted by police after his press conference was
disrupted by protestors Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, outside City Hall in Charlottesville, Va.
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gathered to “take America sponse to the violence then he called an “egregious
back” and oppose plans crashed into the woods display of hatred, bigotry
to remove a Confederate outside of town. Both troop- and violence on many
statue in the Virginia col- ers on board died. sides,” a statement that
lege town, and hundreds A crowd gathered on the Democrats and some of
of other people came to street where the crash hap- the president’s fellow Re-
protest the rally. The groups pened for a vigil Sunday publicans saw as equivo-
clashed in street brawls, evening. They sang “Amaz- cating about who was to
with hundreds of people ing Grace” and prayed blame.
water bottles and beating mark the spot where Heyer ed that the condemnation
each other with sticks and was killed. “includes white Suprema-
shields. Prominent white national- cists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all
Eventually, a car rammed ist Richard Spencer, who extremist groups.”
into a peaceful crowd of attended the rally, denied Some of the white nation-
anti-white-nationalist pro- all responsibility for the alists at Saturday’s rally
testers, killing 32-year-old violence. He blamed the cited Trump’s victory, af-
Heather Heyer. A Virginia counter-protesters and po- ter a campaign of racially
State Police helicopter de- lice. charged rhetoric, as vali-
ployed in a large-scale re- Trump condemned what dation for their beliefs.q
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLE- Two of Elshikh’s five chil- Doug Chin said: “So long
HER, dren have never met their as this discriminatory and
Associated Press grandmother, he said. She illegal executive order is
HONOLULU (AP) — The Syr- last visited her family in Ha- not struck down, the state
ian grandmother at the waii in 2005. “Without the of Hawaii and its residents
center of Hawaii’s law- lawsuit, we couldn’t get are harmed.” A federal
suit challenging President the visa. Without this chal- appeals court in Seattle is
Donald Trump’s travel ban lenge, my children would scheduled to hear argu-
on people from six mostly not have been reunited ments later this month in
Muslim countries arrived in with their grandma,” he the government’s appeal
Honolulu. Wafa Yahia re- said. “I still feel sadness for of a ruling allowing grand-
ceived approval from the those who are still affected mothers and other family
U.S. government several by the Muslim ban, who members of those in the
weeks ago, according to are not as lucky as my fam- U.S. to enter the country.
her son-in-law, Ismail Elshi- ily.” Elshikh is a plaintiff in The U.S. Supreme Court pre-
kh, the imam of a Honolulu Hawaii’s challenge to the viously allowed a scaled-
mosque. She arrived Satur- travel ban. Yahia’s immi- back version of the ban
day night, after a 28-hour grant visa approval would to go into effect before it
journey that began in Leb- not affect Hawaii’s lawsuit, hears the case in October.
anon. Hawaii Attorney General The justices exempted visa
applicants from the ban if
Noran Elshikh, from left, Dana Elshikh, Mustafa Elshikh, Wafa Ya-
hia, Mazen Elshikh, Nada Elshikh pose for a photo at Honolulu’s they can prove a “bona
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport after Wafa Yahia arrived fide” relationship with a
from Syria on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. U.S. citizen or entity.q
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