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A massive protest is underway at Brooklyn Borough Hall — with thousands of bodega owners and Yemeni-American immigrants rallying and praying together in solidarity against President Trump and his refugee ban.

“No ban! No wall! USA for all!” the crowd chanted Thursday evening on the stairs and plazas outside Borough Hall.

“I don’t care about your religion, your color, what country you are from. We are all human,” explained Malek Uhaib, a 26-year-old Yemini who lives in Jamaica and works at Smash Grill, one of roughly 1,000 businesses that shut down earlier in the day in protest of Trump’s executive order, temporarily banning refugees from certain Muslim countries.

Yemen is one of those seven nations.

“We are all brothers,” Uhaib said, as thousands of Yemini bodega owners and supporters waved American and Yemeni flags and chanted.

“Together, we will make America great again.”

At around 5:15 p.m., the crowd gathered to publicly pray.

The demonstration came just hours after the Yemini grocery store owners closed up shop for their “bodega strike,” which was scheduled to take place from noon to 8 p.m., according to the event’s Facebook page.

“Families who are legally permitted to enter this country are being barred,” fumed Sal Altaheri, a 57-year-old retired MTA supervisor from Boerum Hill. “They obtained their visas legally, they have all the documentation, background checks. They have been to the consulate. They paid so much money to come here and now they can’t come here. They just want to be treated like everyone else. These are hard-working people who pay their taxes. All they want is to be rejoined with their families.”

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