An estimated two thousand people came together Tuesday night in a vigil held by Lancaster Stands Up to show their support for Muslim immigrants and refugees.

Gathered in Penn Square, the candlelit demonstration featured speakers calling for the United States’ government and its citizens to accept Muslim immigrants and refugees rather than turn them away.

The vigil comes in wake of the executive order signed by President Donald Trump that halts immigration from seven Middle Eastern, Muslim-majority nations.

The order has been widely criticized by US politicians as too harsh for the circumstances, as the number of terrorists from the seven countries have been zero since 1975.

Republican Pennsylvanian representative Charlie Dent has been outspoken against the order, saying, “This is ridiculous. I guess I understand what his intention is, but unfortunately the order appears to have been rushed through without full consideration,” he said in an interview with The Washington Post.

The New York Times Editorial Board wrote in opposition to the order, “It invokes the attacks of Sept. 11 as a rationale, while exempting the countries of origin of all the hijackers who carried out that plot and also, perhaps not coincidentally, several countries where the Trump family does business.”