Hundreds gathered to express solidarity at the White House shortly after the election. (Photo by Ted Eytan)

Yesterday, activists headed to the White House in protest of executive actions advancing the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. This afternoon, they are doing the same to stand in solidarity with immigrants and refugees whose to have their lives upended by actions the president is expected to sign as early as tomorrow.

Several news outlets have published a draft of an executive order that Donald Trump is preparing that would indefinitely block refugees from Syria, temporarily halt the admission of all refugees for four months, and cut the total number admitted in a year to less than half.

Meanwhile, Trump also advanced his campaign promise of building a wall on the Mexican border—if not the part where Mexico pays for it.

And he’s taken aim at “sanctuary cities” that protect undocumented immigrants from deportation, pledging to pull federal funding (though it remains unclear how, Sean Spicer said the order will instruct federal agencies to “look at funding streams” and to “figure out how to defund those streams”).

Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faith leaders are participating in the event, including a vigil that started at 4 p.m. and a rally scheduled for 5 p.m.

“The main message is that what we’re seeing today is an attack on the fundamental values of our country. It’s un-American to target people based on their religion and nation of origin for demonization, for an outright ban. This is a fundamental breach of the values that we stand for,” says Rabbi Jason Kimelman-Block, the director of Bend the Arc Jewish Action. “We are talking not about the difference between conservative and liberal approaches to economic or other issues. We’re not talking about Democrat and Republican. What were talking about right now is right and wrong.”

Wearing a kippah and carrying sign that reads “anti-Muslim is anti-America,” he says that the various religious groups in attendance are stronger together and have much more in common than what divides them. He adds: “I think that this is a scary weak and a scary moment, but its also a clarifying moment, and its a time for people of conscience to wake up and stand up.”

Update 6:25 p.m.: Protesters have taken to the streets surrounding the White House, shutting several down. A Trump supporter has been running through the peaceful crowd with a large blue flag, and someone briefly projected “hands too small to build a wall” on a nearby building.