‘Sociopath’ Don, DACA kayo spur city protest

ANGER AT INJUSTICE

NEW YORKERS of all walks of life united Saturday against President Trump’s decision to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito railed against the President, calling him a “sociopath,” in an emotional speech at the National Action Network’s Harlem headquarters.

“It’s really becoming hard to maintain my composure during these times because of the level of outrage that I feel waking up every day to some new form of assault,” Mark-Viverito told a cheering crowd. “There is a level of insanity that has been unleashed. These are young people that don’t know any other country beside this one.”

Mark-Viverito led a rally of lawmakers and others earlier in the week at City Hall.

On Saturday, she cautioned that the Trump administration has opened a Pandora’s box by booting the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to Congress.

“They do not know what they have unleashed,” she warned, “because the level of support that these young people have and the level of courage that they demonstrate. They’ve come out of the shadows, they are not afraid.

“He’s a sociopath,” she said of Trump. “He’s giving license for that racism, that xenophobia, that Islamophobia, everything, to come out to the forefront.”

The Rev. Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, agreed.

“We are not going to sit by silent as this man robs people of their civil and human rights,” he said. “For people to say that people who have fought in the military and paid taxes ought to be put out, we are not going for that.”

Later, hundreds of people gathered outside Trump International Hotel & Tower at Columbus Circle in the afternoon to rally against the decision.

Protesters carried signs that read, “No one is illegal” and “Immigrants welcome.”