On January 26th, protesters gathered on the streets in downtown Lexington, Kentucky at the Fayette County Courthouse to protest against a new executive order that was signed by President Donald Trump. The protestors are advocating for the rights of immigrants. The protesters held up signs and carried speakers playing songs while chanting different sayings all around the downtown area. During the protest, people that were driving in cars rolled their windows down, honked their horns, and shouted messages in support of the protesters. “You might not like us. You might not want us. But you’re gonna respect us,” said all of the protesters as they marched down the streets. 

According to the executive order that Trump signed, any child cannot be granted citizenship if a mother or father doesn’t have legal immigration status or if they are in the country illegally or temporarily. “I want to show people that you are nothing without us. We make up more people in this country than they think and without us, America will fall,” this was said by a protester named Moss. “It (Lexington) has always been colorful, it’s never been monotone. If anything, I feel like I’ve seen more people of color here than not,” Moss also said. “All I want to do today is show people that they’re not alone and that we can have some unity, regardless of how many issues there might be,”  said a college student Alyssa Porter 

ICE began making arrests on January 26th and 956 people were arrested at the time. ICE began going to schools and a protester said, “If our kids are not safe in schools, where else are they gonna be safe?” When the protest ended people handed out cards detailing the Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights for U.S. citizens and noncitizens in both English and Spanish.