http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/protest-jfk-airport-trump-refugee-ban-170128193014041.html Protest at JFK airport over Trump's refugee ban Protests planned at several more US airports as authorities block entry of migrants, including green card holders. Protests have broken out at the John F Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York City as immigrants, including US green card holders, are detained following right-wing President Donald Trump's executive order placing harsh restrictions on travelers from several Muslim-majority countries. Hundreds of demonstrators chanted "No ban, no wall, sanctuary for all!" and "no hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here!" while gathering outside the airport's Terminal Four arrivals section. The protests came in response to passport holders from Arab countries being blocked on Saturday from passing through customs at US airports, while others were prevented from boarding US-bound planes. On Friday, Trump signed an executive order to curb immigration and the entry of refugees from some Muslim-majority countries. He separately said he wanted the US to give priority to Syrian Christians fleeing the civil war there. Trump placed a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the country and temporarily barred travelers from Syria and six other Muslim-majority countries. The protest was attended by several New York-based organisations, including Make the Road New York, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), Black Latino Asian Caucus members and The New York Immigration Coalition, among others. Speaking to Al Jazeera, Julia Carmel, an organiser with JFREJ, decried Trump's executive order. "The purpose of our protest at JFK airport is two-fold. First, we are demanding the safe release of refugees and other visa-holders, all of whom cooperated with a long and grueling vetting process in order to get here," she said. "Additionally, the central message of our protest is that we are all immigrants or children of immigrants and refugees. The executive order is not only inhumane; it is absurd and hypocritical," she added, pointing out that the ban came into effect on Holocaust Remembrance Day (Friday). Tara Raghuveer, a 24-year-old national immigrant rights organiser with Make the Road New York, described the executive orders as "deeply un-American". "They go against everything our country aspires to stand for," she told Al Jazeera at the protest. Kazi Fouzia, a 48-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant and activist with Desis Rising Up and Moving, said she came to the protest to say: "Banning one of us is banning all of us. Terrorising one of us is terrorising all of us." Fouzia, who has lived in New York City for ten years, added: "We are here to make sure every single held in JFK will be released... we have to take down the policy." Other protests were expected to take place at airports in San Francisco and Washington, DC, among other US cities. Lawsuits Trump administration officials have defended the executive order. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, a senior US administration official confirmed that the restrictions will impact legal permanent residents, known as green card holders, on a case-by-base basis. For at least 90 days, citizens of Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan and Libya are barred from entering the country. Syrians have been banned from entering the US indefinitely. Immigrants from the seven countries have been blocked from bordering US-bound planes in Lebanon, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and elsewhere. Legal representatives for two Iraqi men filed lawsuits against the Trump and the US government on Saturday, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a rights group. Both men had ties to the US military and were had visas. They were detained on Friday night in JFK Airport. "President Trump's war on equality is already taking a terrible human toll. This ban cannot be allowed to continue," said Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, in a statement .
The greatest killer of Muslims are other Muslims so this should only help them, if that's their concern.
We know how you voted. You can't even say this action by Trump is an abomination, can you. Trump just pissed on the Constitution and you are happy as a clam.
I didn't vote, abstained in protest of RNC and DNC behavior and lack of serious candidates. Not thought you will believe me but it's 100% true.
Its NYC. Of course many of them voted. Even if they didn't, it wouldn't have changed any EC votes. Don't be dense.
well if they did then they lost so they can speak for all 50 states. they should understand that when making their "demands"
People voted for trump for various reasons, but I don't think Muslim ban was what put him over the top. If this specific policy was being voted on, I do not know whether it would even garner 40% of the vote.
What demands? I'm pretty sure people in the most educated states understand they can't speak for the rest of the states. Your perspective on things is either immature or troubling.
No one here voted for Trump (except RocketLegend, perhaps), especially not those that defend him constantly here...
These hippies need to pace themselves, they'll be all protested out by the end of the year at this pace and they have almost 4 more years left to protest.
At least they have something to protest about right? Considering you didn't like it when they protested last weekend because Trump hadn't done anything yet. Well now he has done something.
