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EXECUTIVE ORDER Students protest, talk about President Donald Trump’s order to end visa issuing to immigrants and visitors from seven Middle Eastern countries
“So the main concern is that I don’t know anything about my future right now, because whatever I had planned is shattered. So I don’t know. I don’t know anything. I don’t know if I’m going to stay in the states, go back to my own country, I’m going to go to some other country for working, I don’t know anything right now.”
“My family is affected from this. My parents are immigrants to this country from Iraq, a country banned on this list, one of the seven countries. So that’s why I came out, to show my support.” Yacer Mirza Electrical engineering sophomore
Morteza Safdarnejad Electrical engineering PhD Dissertation student
“As soon as we heard about the executive order and how bad it was, first, we wanted to try to relay the message in a way that we could make people hear about it, hear stories and put faces to the actual stories, and then what can they do to actually mobilize? So that was pretty much the goal. It was to give people calls to action, what they can actually do.”
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Iran
Libya Iraq
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Somalia
Abraham Aiyash President of Muslim Students’ Association Senior political theory and constitutional democracy
“I am actually a Muslim first being, so I think that’s very important, and my parents are both immigrants. So this whole Muslim ban has kind of hit home just a bit.” Marwa Mallah Social work senior
“A big concern of mine is that, while we do have a huge population here that oppose the ban, obviously, there’s a huge, amazing turnout here tonight, there’s a lot of people who are either in agreement with it or who haven’t taken a stance on it and are finding ways to justify it.’’
Katy Hollobaugh Arabic senior
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Students and members of the community gathered for a protest at The Rock on Jan. 31. The Michigan State Muslim Students’ Association hosted a “No Ban, No Wall: Spartans for Sanctuary and Solidarity” as a response to President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration. PHOTOS BY ZAINA MAHMOUD T HU R S DAY, F E B R UA RY 2 , 2 017
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