In the wake of the Executive Order signed by President Trump earlier on January 28, FIRM hosted other Fresno area religious leaders in protesting the order at a rally and news conference held outside the FIRM offices.
“The security checks since the September of 2001 terrorist attacks help us know that we have admitted 750,000 new refugees since that time not one of them has been arrested on domestic terrorism charges,” says Reverend Sharon Stanley-Rea.
“Such orders of the president are well within his legal authority, yet these actions greatly cripple the US refugee resettlement program,” says FIRM Executive Director Zack Darrah.
See local news coverage, including text and video of the protest here.