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“Everybody’s nervous, everybody of Somali origin and Muslim origin,” said Osman Ali, the Toronto-based director of the Somali Canadian Association of Etobicoke. “The community feels that it’s a way of targeting the Muslim community, the African community and the black Muslim community.”

Tima Kurdi, the aunt of two-year-old Alan Kurdi, who became a symbol of the Syrian refugee crisis when his lifeless body was photographed on a Turkish beach, is calling the U.S. ban on Syrian refugees inhumane.

“Imagine those children who have one hope, and have been waiting for years to get help. Now imagine them, the next thing you’re going to see is they’re dying,” she said in an interview from her home in B.C.

She said the U.S. has a responsibility to support refugees after having contributed to conflicts and supplying weapons to the Middle East, and this ban will only incite more fear within American borders.

“As a president, you don’t teach your people to fear. Teach them how to be strong, teach them how to love so we don’t create more hate,” she said.

Kurdi, who lives in British Columbia, said she’s proud that Canada has welcomed refugees and urged both individuals and the government to do everything they can to help more Syrians escape the war as the U.S. is no longer an option.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, who has been a vocal critic of Trudeau’s environmental and health-care policies, offered his support to the federal government in the face of Trump’s ban.

“Sask has welcomed approx 2000 refugees this past year, Wall posted on Twitter Saturday. ”We stand ready to assist fed gov’t re: anyone stranded

by the US ban.“

An American law enforcement official told The Associated Press there was an exemption for foreigners whose entry is in the U.S. national interest, but it was not immediately clear how that exemption might be applied.

WestJet and Air Canada said they were waiving cancellation fees for people who hold passports from the affected countries. Air Canada said it expected that only a small handful of its passengers would be affected.