Protesters interrupted Donald Trump during a speech by shouting “you can’t send us back - Virginia is our home.”
Audience members at the US President’s speech in Jamestown, Virginia booed and jeered as a man wearing a tuxedo stood up and shouted his message.
He held a banner, which featured a picture of Trump Tower alongside the slogan: “Go back to your corrupt home.”
It also read “deport hate” and “reunite my family.”
The US President has been accused of racism after telling a group of congresswomen to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came".
He branded the four women - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan - ‘the Squad’.
Only Ms Omar, whose family left Somalia as refugees and arrived in Minneapolis in 1997, was born outside the United States.
President Trump was giving a speech to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown - where English immigrants settled in North America permanently for the first time.
Elements of Trump’s speech will anger many who believe the President’s rhetoric includes ‘dog whistle’ messages to America’s far-right.
In a message of support for ’states rights’ - the idea that individual states should have supremacy over rules imposed by the federal government, he said: “We must speak out strongly against anyone who would take power away from citizens, individuals, and state governments such as yours."
Virginia was one of the states which seceded from the Union in the 1860s rather than accept the election of Abraham Lincoln - and the federal abolition of slavery.
This secession crisis led to the US Civil War.
