From Michael D. Shear and Nicholas Kulish writing the New York Times:
Trump’s Order Blocks Immigrants at Airports, Stoking Fear Around Globe
Hey guys - you forgot to mention that it is Muslim immigrants being blocked. Not everyone, just muslim. Yes, this is profiling - get over it. Israel does this at their airports, want to know how many hijackings they have had in the last 20 years? Zero.
President Trump’s executive order on immigration quickly reverberated through the United States and across the globe on Saturday, slamming the border shut for an Iranian scientist headed to a lab in Boston, an Iraqi who had worked as an interpreter for the United States Army, and a Syrian refugee family headed to a new life in Ohio, among countless others.
Around the nation, security officers at major international gateways had new rules to follow. Humanitarian organizations scrambled to cancel long-planned programs, delivering the bad news to families who were about to travel. Refugees who were airborne on flights when the order was signed were detained at airports.
Reports rapidly surfaced Saturday morning of students attending American universities who were blocked from getting back into the United States from visits abroad. One student said in a Twitter post that he would be unable to study at Yale. Another who attends the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was refused permission to board a plane. Stanford University was reportedly working to help a Sudanese student return to California.
Cry me a river - again, this action was publicized well in advance and is only in place for 120 days. Those people being inconvenienced probably thought that they were such precious little snowflakes that the rules did not apply to them. They will not stop me, I am a student at MIT / Yale / lab technician...
