DENVER – Thousands of people gathered at Denver’s City Center Park on Saturday for a rally in support of the Muslim community and to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order to temporarily ban refuges.
One of the thousands in attendance was Ronaldo Michelena, 54, who came to the United States as a refugee from Venezuela and became a citizen in 2011.
He said he was fired from his job in 2003 for being among those that opposed Hugo Chavez’s policies – and “here we are again.”
“We cannot see this happening around us and don’t do anything,” said Michelena, who was holding a sign depicting the cover of the German magazine Der Spiegel that has a cartoon of Trump beheading the Statue of Liberty. “This is something that cannot stand.”
