A new mural in France shows the Statue of Liberty covering her eyes in a swipe at Trump
RoubaIX, France (AP) – A big one as the expressions progress.
A rising wall painting of the Freedom Statue, which covers his eyes in France, uses millions of landscapes online with scrolling US President Donald Trump immigration and deportation Policies.
Amsterdam -based street artist Judith de Leeuw described his giant work in Robaix, the North French town, which has a large community of immigrants.
“Freedom cannot be achieved” and “those who are pushed, silenced or invisible to margins”.
When De Leeuw celebrated the Americans on Facebook, he wrote in a letter on July 4, “The weight of freedom once, what was once a symbol of freedom that once shined is now the sadness of the loss of loss. Independence Day.
Description of the statue of freedom, A gift from the French people In the late 1800s, he inspired some sharp criticism.
Tim Burchett, a representative of a republican deputy from Tennessee, An angry article on x that the job disgusted me. He was a uncle who fought and died in France and that the US forces were both World War I and II. He said he saw war in World War II.
In an interview with Associated Press, Leeuw was also unapologist.
“I’m not disturbed by hating the Donald Trump movement. I’m sorry. This is the right thing to do,” he said.
Together with Deputy Mayor of Cultural Affairs, the town, Frédéric Lefebvre, the broadcaster France 3, “a very powerful and powerful political message,” he said.
Since he returned to the White House in the midst of the anti -immigration emotion, Embers launched an unprecedented campaign Forced the limits of executive power And Conflict with Federal Judges trying to restrict him. People from various countries were deported to distant and indifferent places like South Sudan and Little African Nation conjunctive Eswatini.
Immigration One of Trump’s most powerful problems In the public poll in the USA
The wall painting in Roubaix is part of a urban street culture festival supported by the town. Roubaix is one of the poorest towns in France. Europe, North Africa, and beyond immigrant workers, once the 1970s of the extraordinary textile industry has been devastated by the collapse.
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Associated Press journalists contributed to Ahmad Seir in Amsterdam and John Leicester in Paris.
