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Portland Rallies to Protest Trump’s Immigration Order

Maine Public | By Fred Bever,

Ed Morin

Published February 2, 2017 at 11:00 AM EST

Ralliers in Portland Wednesday.

More than 1,000 people crowded in front of the steps of Portland City Hall late Wednesday afternoon to protest President Donald Trump’s executive action on immigration.

Among the speakers was organizer Hamdia Ahmed, a student at the University of Southern Maine.

“So I call on everyone here today to fight for refugees and Muslims, to fight for all people for equality and to ensure that the Constitution is upheld. I urge everyone here to fight against any form of hate,” she says.

Among those attending the rally was Ali Mann from Portland with her baby Asa. Mann was holding a sign that said “No Ban. No Wall.”

“Overall I’m pretty terrified, horrified, angry and afraid,” Mann says.

The rally had originally been scheduled for last Friday, but was postponed to make sure that the event, with such a large crowd expected, would come off safely.

Maine

Fred Bever

A Columbia University graduate, Fred began his journalism career as a print reporter in Vermont, then came to Maine Public in 2001 as its political reporter, as well as serving as a host for a variety of Maine Public Radio and Maine Public Television programs. Fred later went on to become news director for New England Public Radio in Western Massachusetts and worked as a freelancer for National Public Radio and a number of regional public radio stations, including WBUR in Boston and NHPR in New Hampshire.

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Ed Morin

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.