(10 Jun 2025)
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San Francisco – 09 June 2025
1. Mid of a sign reading "Everyone is welcome here"
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammed Cheikh, organizing director, the Arab Resource and Organizing Center:
"On June 4th, Trump issued an executive order to implement full travel bans and extreme visa restrictions from a total of 19 countries. All countries impacted by this order, with the exception of four, are either Arab, majority Muslim, or in Africa."
3. Mid of a sign reading "Freedom of movement is a human right"
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammed Cheikh, organizing director, the Arab Resource and Organizing Center:
"We will resist and we will protect our communities in the face of this brutal escalation."
5. Mid of a sign reading "Arrest the real criminal – Trump!"
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lara Kiswani, The Executive Director of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) in San Francisco:
"No matter where, no matter how, Trump and his administration targets any vulnerable community, we will show up. We will resist. And we will call on our elected leaders to continue to join us and make good on their own promises and to ensure that we’re able to do so free of state repression, that we are able to protest and meet this moment the way it requires us all to do as history has shown us. We are only as safe as the most vulnerable amongst us, and San Francisco will do what it has always done, is protect and defend all vulnerable communities and all working people of this city."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, District 5, Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors:
"Donald Trump, you are a coward. You are a wannabe king anchored in hatred, and if you are thinking of targeting a single one of my residents in District 5, the families, the children, or the seniors, you’re going to have to come through me first."
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, District 5, Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors:
"This isn’t just talk, we’re taking action. Tomorrow at the Board of Supervisors, my office will introduce legislation to fully support our right to protest. Because no one in San Francisco should have to face fear of expressing their First Amendment rights. Later this week, I will work in close partnership with the Public Defender’s Office to expand their Immigrant Defense Unit. And this is just the beginning."
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) April Newman, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice:
"If we allow the government to take away people’s right to due process, we all are at risk. We denounce the travel ban, ICE raids, detention and deportation. We organize as a community to protect one another. When immigrant rights are under attack, what do we do? Get up and fight back."
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STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump’s new ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens from a dozen countries took effect on Monday.
The ban targeting mainly African and Middle Eastern countries kicked in amid rising tension over the president’s escalating campaign of immigration enforcement.
Immigrant rights advocates held a media briefing Monday in San Francisco, California to condemn the ban.
Mohammed Cheikh of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center described it a “brutal escalation” and called for resistance.
District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood denounced the policy and announced plans to introduce legislation supporting protest rights and expanding immigrant legal defense services.
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