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In protest of Trump’s executive order which bans refugees and citi-zens from seven predominately Muslim countries from entering the United States, Towne walked the carpet with the words “LET THEM IN” painted across her chest, while her partner Helberg held up a sign saying “REFUGEES WELCOME.”

On Saturday Helberg tweeted his support for the American Civil Liberties Union, which had fought the executive order with a success-ful lawsuit at a Federal Court in Brooklyn.

Another creative guild, The Writers Guild of America, has already spoken out against the ban, saying that it “applauded” the Federal Court’s decision.

“It is both unconstitutional and deeply wrong to say that you cannot enter our country because of where you were born or what religion you were born into,” said WGA West president Howard Rodman and WGA East president Michael Winship in a statement on Sunday. Hu-man rights — including the freedoms of speech and religion — are es-sential to all Americans and to all who come here to build better lives.”

ActiveMost of the actors going onstage at Sunday’s SAG awards had strong

words about the ban, and many other actors were active on Twitter over the weekend discussing the executive order.

Kumail Nanjiani was among those who tweeted his support for the ACLU.

“Thank you ACLU. Thank you. Trump’s immigration ban is tempo-rarily disabled. Donate to ACLU Something tells me we’ll be needing them,” the actor tweeted.

The cast of “Stranger Things,” Emma Stone and Julia Louis-Dreyfus won at a Screen Actors Guild Awards that has been, in part, a very well-dressed protest against President Donald Trump’s sweeping im-migration order.

While protests continued at airports nationwide over Trump’s tem-porary ban of citizens from seven predominantly Muslim nations, many at the SAG Awards struck a defi ant tone. Ashton Kutcher, the fi rst pre-senter at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, welcomed not just the viewing audience but “anyone in airports that belong in my America.”

Louis-Dreyfus added another honor for her performance on the po-litical satire “Veep.” She called herself the daughter of an immigrant who fl ed religious persecution in Nazi-occupied France.

“Because I love this country, I am horrifi ed by its blemishes,” said Louis-Dreyfus. “And this immigrant ban is a blemish and it is un-American.”

Perhaps the most moving speech came from Mahershala Ali, who won best supporting actor for his acclaimed performance in Barry Jen-kins’ coming-of-age portrait, “Moonlight.” Ali said he saw lessons for today in “Moonlight,” in which he plays a character who makes a dif-ference in a shy, gay Miami boy’s hard life. “We see what happens when you persecute people,” Ali said. “The fold into themselves.”

Ali said his relationship with his mother exemplifi ed tolerance. The son of an ordained minister, Ali converted to Islam 17 years ago.

“We put things to the side,” Ali said of their differences. “I’m able to see her. She’s able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown. That stuff is minutia. It’s not that important.”

But the fi eriest speech was by David Harbour, who led the cast of Netfl ix’s “Stranger Things” — maybe the night’s biggest surprise win-ner — on stage. “We will hunt monsters,” he vowed in lengthy remarks that drew a standing ovation.

Like Ali, other Oscar favorites cemented their front-runner status, including Emma Stone for “La La Land” and Viola Davis for Denzel Washington’s August Wilson adaptation “Fences.” Davis framed her speech as a thank you to Wilson for honoring the average man, “who happened to be a man of color.”

“We deserve to be in the canon, in the center of any narrative that’s written out there. And that’s what August did,” said Davis. “He elevated my father, my mother, uncles, who had 8th and 5th-grade educations. He just encapsulated them in history. So thank you, August.”

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