Protest held at Indianapolis airport after immigration order

The protest was “moving”, she said, and at some points nearly brought her to tears. “Big problems at airports were caused by Delta computer outage”.

Refugees traveling into the USA on Friday night were being detained at airports.

In Washington demonstrators welcomed air passengers who’d been allowed through.

Protesters assemble at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, after two Iraqi refugees were detained while trying to enter the country.

Trump has said the U.S. will in future prioritise Christian refugees. Darweesh has worked with the U.S.in Iraq as an interpreter for the Army, a contractor, and an engineer for the last 10 years. By nightfall, more than 2,000 people, many of them carrying signs and chanting anti-Trump slogans, were joined by celebrities who called for the immediate release of 12 worldwide travelers detained by airport authorities.

“Where people run up additional costs because of delays, for example for accommodation, they may be able to get some money back via their travel insurance, depending on the terms of their policy”.

“The showdown at JFK marks the first direct confrontation of Trump’s infant administration, and the first attempt at obstructing the new commander-in-chief’s implementation of his most controversial campaign promises via fiat.” the Observer report said.

THE FACTS: That is misleading. The executive action impacts immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries, including Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. This was included in a large spending bill passed overwhelmingly by Congress and signed by Obama. There were no special U.S.travel restrictions on citizens of those seven countries.

“To be clear, this is not a Muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting”, Trump said in a statement on Sunday.

While the refugee program is suspended, the USA may admit people on a case-by-case basis “when in the national interest” and the government will continue to process refugee requests from people claiming religious persecution, “provided that the religion.is a minority religion in the individual’s country”.

Reuters reported that Muslim around the world are “furious” over the executive orders and that the us immigration system has been “plunged into chaos” by the orders, which are broadly worded and are being interpreted differently by different agencies and by different divisions within those agencies.

Kirkpatrick said she believes protests, such as the ones that took place around the country on Sunday, make a difference.