Thousands Join New Protests Against Trump's Immigration Order

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/thousands-join-protests-trumps-immigration-order/story?id=45272058

Thousands of people from New York to Los Angeles to Miami where President Trump is staying launched new protests Saturday against the president's executive order barring entry into the U.S. for travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

The demonstrations came in the wake of a federal judge's order Friday placing a temporary restraining order on the executive action. With that ruling, the Department of Homeland Security said Saturday it has stopped enforcing key parts of the executive action on entry into the U.S. by travelers from the seven countries -- Syria, Yemen, Libya, SSudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran and Libya.

In New York, demonstrators braved bitterly cold weather to turn out for what organizers billed as a solidarity rally by the LGBT community in support of immigrants and refugees affected by the executive order. It was based around Greenwich Village's iconic Stonewall Inn, the site of historic protests for LGBT rights.

Anthony Sandoval, 35, a fashion designer, told ABC News, "A lot of my friends are going to be affected by Trump's immigration policies."

Julia Pelta Feldman, carried a sign declaring, "Families of Holocaust survivors stand with refugees," and on the opposite side, "My bubbe warned me about this," using the Yiddish word for grandmother. She said her grandparents were Polish refugees who escaped the Holocaust and that in addition to her concerns about immigrants and refugees she is worried about preserving the separation of church and state and protecting the rights of the LGBT community.