After the recent arrests of several undocumented immigrants in Baltimore, Glenda Ochoa went to the Washington Monument on Sunday afternoon to rally with dozens of others in protest of President Donald J. Trump.

Ochoa, a 20-year-old permanent U.S. resident from El Salvador, said people in the Hispanic community are frightened.

“I’ve been concerned about my friends, my friends’ family,” she said. “They’ve been very worried about it. They’re really afraid of what’s going to happen next.”

A multicultural mix of people gathered to protest the Trump administration’s actions to ban the entry of people from several predominantly Muslim countries and to suspend refugee admissions, and also the president’s rhetoric on immigration from Mexico.

Trump this month ordered a 90-day ban on people from Sudan, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen. It will not apply to foreign students, engineers, tourists and relatives who are traveling to this country or temporarily traveling aboard. He also suspended refugee admissions for 120 days.

The Trump administration has said the restrictions are intended to bolster national security. Critics say they do nothing to enhance security and will help ISIS and other terror groups recruit new members.

Trump’s recent executive order follows one in January that caused widespread disruption. Some immigrants who had been on airplanes at the time the earlier order was signed were barred from entering the country. That earlier order was halted in federal court.

Some support Trump’s actions.

Brad Botwin, director of Help Save Maryland, a group that opposes illegal immigration, said he’s concerned about its impact on his home of Montgomery County.

“The Obama administration opened the doors to this and hopefully Trump will go back to normal, where we’re protecting our borders and protecting our citizens,” Botwin said.

Immigrant rights groups say they have seen a spike in deportation orders against longtime Hispanic residents in the area.

Rabbi Daniel Burg of Beth Am Synagogue in Reservoir Hill said he went to the protest with his family and some congregants to stand in solidarity with the Muslim and Latino communities.

“If any people understand what it is to be marginalized, to be scapegoated, it’s the Jewish community,” he said. “And we believe at this moment we have a responsibility to stand up and to stand with those who are being targeted by these kinds of prejudicial policies.”

Elizabeth Alex, the regional director of the immigrant advocacy group CASA de Maryland, said the group is working on about 25 potential deportation cases in the central Maryland area from the last couple of weeks, including several parents of young children with no criminal records.

“We wanted to send a message that this is not our America, this is not the America that we believe in,” she said.

Dayvon Love, director of public policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, a group that advocates for African-American issues, said the immigration order was “a black issue” because it affected Afro-Latinos and black Muslims.

“I think it’s important that all the groups represented here mobilize the aspects of their communities that have been disengaged,” Love said.

cwells@baltsun.com