A young girl holds up a sign at a #NoBanNoWall rally held on Thursday in D.C. (Photo by Alex Edelman)

A young girl holds up a sign at a #NoBanNoWall rally held on Thursday in D.C. (Photo by Alex Edelman)

In light of President Donald Trump’s new executive order banning refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries entry to the U.S., there will be a rally on Saturday evening at Washington Dulles International Airport beginning at 5 p.m.

“We’re planning, as a show of solidarity, to be at the international arrivals door with signs of support,” says Cayce Utley, an organizer with Standing Up For Racial Justice of Northern Virginia. “We’re letting international arrivals, immigrants, refugees coming into this country, who might be afraid of the executive order, know we are with them and we welcome them.”

The executive order has already led to confusion and the detention of refugees in airports. At New York’s JFK Airport, two Iraqi refugees were detained upon arrival and their lawyers were unable to reach them. One of them, Hameed Jhalid Darweesh, has been released after two members of Congress demanded to see him, though many more, including green-card holders, remain in limbo. The American Civil Liberties Union has already filed a lawsuit against the executive order

We’ve reached out to Dulles International Airport and to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority for information about how they’re enforcing the executive order or whether there are any people currently detained, and will update when we hear back. In 2015, Dulles saw 7,187,434 total international passengers, according to figures from MWAA.

Utley says that, with so many unknowns, her organization “specifically designed our action to be one of solidarity and not one of direct confrontation. We don’t want to make any more trouble for [the refugees] than they’re already having.”

Some are already using social media to seek help for refugees who are set to arrive at Dulles.

On Thursday night, hundreds of people demonstrated outside of the Wilson Building to ask D.C. officials to stand with Muslim, immigrant, and refugee communities.

Shortly before the rally on Saturday begins, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and the state’s attorney general, Mark Herring, will also be at Dulles.

The rally begins at 5 p.m. at Dulles International Airport. People plan to gather at Door 1 for international arrivals.

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