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Alison Campsie in Balmedie for Anti Trump Protest
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00:00I'm Alison Camps here with the Scotsman. I am at Balmedie at the anti-Trump protest, probably about 100, 200 people here.
00:08We're just heading down towards Balmedie Beach, which edges the site of Trump's golf course.
00:14It's getting pretty noisy, more people are kind of adding in. You'll hear there that it's mostly a few Palestine chants that are being heard.
00:22There's a lot of anger regarding the situation in Gaza, the terrible pictures of starvation, and people really calling on Keir Starmer to really make use of this opportunity and speak to Donald Trump about these very important issues which have brought people out today to protest.
00:40I spoke to one woman, she's come up from the southeast of England for this. She just feels so aggrieved at what's happening.
00:46She's Mexican-American, and she's just so heartbroken about the situation that her friends and family are facing back home.
00:53Oh, well, we could be here for hours if I went through the full list, but two really big things on my mind.
00:58I'm originally from Los Angeles, as you can probably hear in my voice. I'm not originally from here.
01:04I'm very worried about my friends and family. We are U.S. citizens, but we're Mexican-American, and I see people being targeted because of the color of their skin,
01:12and getting picked up by masked thugs on the street violently, and put in detention centers, and I think that that's wrong.
01:20I think that people deserve due process. I think that, I mean, for one, the immigration system is very screwed up,
01:27and that it's very difficult for people to come across legally.
01:31My family came across with the Orange Harvest legally in the 20s, and those visas no longer exist.
01:37So I'm here to speak for them. I also am here for the community here.
01:42The U.K. taxpayer has spent 14 million pounds, I understand, for this visit, which is a business visit of Trump's.
01:51And now I just heard that an additional 180,000 pounds is going to be spent by the U.K. taxpayer as prize money for this golf tournament.
01:59Meanwhile, yesterday, there was a lovely fundraiser on the beach for the Beach Boffy, for their beach wheelchairs, for the community center.
02:07There were groups raising money for wildlife rehabilitation and beach cleanups.
02:12That money should be going to things like that.
02:14So people are here for very many different reasons.
02:18The number one being that they don't want Donald Trump in Scotland today.
02:23Mr. Trump, go home!
02:26Mr. Trump, go home!
02:28Mr. Trump, go home!
02:30You are not welcome here!
02:34You are not welcome here!

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