Mexico City, February 13 (RHC)-- More than 20 cities in Mexico were the scene of huge protests against Donald Trump’s anti-Mexican rhetoric and his calls for Mexico to pay for his controversial border wall. 

Protesters in Mexico City carried a large banner reading: "Mexico must be respected, Mr. Trump," while they marched down the city’s main avenue.  "We're here to make Trump see and feel that an entire country, united, is rising up against him and his xenophobic, discriminatory and fascist stupidity," said one organizer of the protest. 

After taking office, Trump ordered the design and construction of a wall along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border and later floated the idea of imposing a 20-percent import tax on Mexican goods to cover the cost of building the wall.  The U.S. president has also called illegal Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals, and has vowed to deport some 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the shadows in the United States.  

Meanwhile in Brussels, demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. embassy in protest of Donald Trump’s recent travel ban against people coming from seven Muslim-majority countries—Iran, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, and Somalia.  The ban was later revoked by a U.S. federal court, but Trump has stated that he will consider other options. 

Protesters also gathered in the Japanese capital city Tokyo, where they expressed their outrage over the controversial measures taken by Washington since Trump took office.  A large number of US citizens were also present in the rally.  One American citizen told reporters: “I believe this is the greatest threat America has faced in quite a while and I think we Americans have been over confident in the fact that it can’t happen to us and so I think we are a bit unprepared.”