A small conversation between three UMD students lead to a university-wide protest with over 200 attendees, demonstrating against Trump’s travel ban.

Akquua Anye, Fardowsa Abdinoor and Hodan Jibrell were sitting in the Multicultural Centers’ TV room the monday after Trump had signed the executive order that would stop immigration from the seven countries of Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen. As the three students were getting passionate about what had happened, they decided to do something that became bigger than they thought it would be, arrange a protest.

Shock, confusion and disbelief. These were some of the reactions Americans had to President Donald Trump’s executive order halting immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries including Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya and Yemen.

Over 100 students gathered at the University of Minnesota Duluth Wednesday afternoon in protest of President Donald Trump’s recent executive order barring immigration from several Muslim-majority nations.