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MORE THAN 100 people — including city officials and politicians — filled Manhattan’s Foley Square on Thursday in a show of support for New York’s immigrant communities.
The downtown rally was held three days after President Trump rolled out a revised executive order banning travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and suspending all new refugee visas.
“People are coming together to push back to resist against these policies that just are insane and make no sense,” said City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito.
City Controller Scott Stringer told the crowd that all religious and ethnic groups have a duty to stand together and support one another.
“We could not do what we do in this city without our immigrant communities,” Stringer said.
“We would lose our heart and soul. We would lose who we are. And we would also lose our economy.”
Stringer finished his address on a hopeful note.
“There’s nothing wrong with this country that one good election can’t cure,” he said. WITH NUMBERS who needs a wall?
Customs and Border Protection agents have detained fewer migrants at the United States’ southwest border with Mexico since President Trump took office.
About 18,700 people were arrested trying to illegally cross into the U.S. in February, according to the agency. That’s a 40% drop from a month earlier, when 31,578 were grabbed by border agents.
January’s border-crossing arrests were up from the last two years, when just north of 20,000 people were stopped trying to cross into the U.S.
February’s decrease comes as the Trump administration clamps down on undocumented immigrants.
“The early results show that enforcement matters, deterrence matters, and that comprehensive immigration enforcement can make an impact,” Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said.
Border Patrol also attributed the drop this year to an uptick in fees charged by human traffickers who bring people across the border. like these,