Thousands of New Yorkers protest against Trump's ban on Muslim entry

Photo: Instagram /@MaketheRoadNY

Thousands of New Yorkers took part in protests at John F. Kennedy Airport against presidential decree Donald Trump, prohibiting the entry of citizens and refugees from 7 countries of the Middle East (Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Sudan).

Spontaneous action was collected by disseminating information through social networks, reports LA Times.

Famous Americans also called for participation in the protests, such as, for example, director Michael Moore, who on the morning of January 28 called on everyone to demonstrate near Terminal 4. In the afternoon, more than 2 thousand people gathered there, they created difficulties for airport security, which was trying to clear the terminal for passengers.

The protesters chanted “Let them in”, demanding to let refugees in the USA, and also read the poems of Emma Lazarus, which are engraved in the base of the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”.

“Keep, ancient countries, your legendary pomp,

And give me your tired, your poor ...

And give me from the depths of the bottomless

His rogue, his people downtrodden,

Send me outcast, homeless,

I give them a candle at the golden door ... ”(translation by Vladimir Lazarus).

Earlier on January 28, 12 people who arrived from countries included in Trump’s “black list” were detained, although one of them, an Iraqi citizen who worked as a translator for the US military, was later released and allowed into US territory.

New York taxi drivers also joined the protests, the union of which stated that they would not pick up passengers from the airport from 18: 00 to 19: 00 January 28 “in solidarity with thousands of protesters against the prohibition against unforeseen and unconstitutional anti-Muslim ban”.

There was no taxi at all near the fourth terminal.
Photo: Twitter /@MaketheRoadNY

In addition, activists announced a protest march in Bettari Park 29 January.

We announce march 2pm Battery Park tomorrow @MaketheRoadNY @thenyic allies. #NoMuslimBanJFK #NoBanNoWall pic.twitter.com/R32iXD0zs8

- Make the Road NY (@MaketheRoadNY) January 29, 2017

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