PEOPLE angry at Donald Trump’s immigration clampdown are urged to join a protest in Petersfield Square tonight (Monday, January 30) at 6pm.

Organisers from the East Hampshire-based Rural Refugee Network (RRN) are hoping for a large turn-out for the demonstration/vigil coinciding with scores of other demonstrations around the UK and in America.

The protests follow Trump’s signing of an executive order on Friday indefinitely banning all Syrian refugees and suspending entry into the US of all nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries.

The RRN has campaigned for refugees in Hampshire for two years, housing Syrian families here, and is extremely concerned about the new President’s influence on the humanitarian issue.

Co-chairman Julia Thistleton-Smith said: “I know very many of you will already have important plans, but in the face of his outrageous and unreasonable behaviour, we’d like to start being unreasonable ourselves.

“I think even if we’re there for half an hour to an hour we can make a point and stand in solidarity with our Muslim friends and community members.”

She urged protestors to bring torches, candles and banners.

This is the second anti-Trump protest in Petersfield. Campaigners hung banners from the A3 bridge at Bell Hill last week as part of the nationwide ‘Bridges Not Walls’ initiative.

And Petersfield people, including former mayors Teresa Jamieson and Liz Mullenger, joined the Women’s March in London last weekend.