Posted on 01/29/2017 12:00:45 PM PST by SkyPilot
It began in the morning, with a small crowd chanting and holding cardboard signs outside Kennedy International Airport, upset by the news that two Iraqi refugees had been detained inside because of President Trump’s executive order.
By the end of the day, the scattershot group had swelled to an enormous crowd.
They filled the sidewalks outside the terminal and packed three stories of a parking garage across the street, a mass of people driven by emotion to this far-flung corner of the city, singing, chanting and unfurling banners.
This was the most public expression of the intense reaction generated across the country by Mr. Trump’s polarizing decision. While those in some areas of the country were cheered by the executive order, the reaction was markedly different for many in New York. References to the Statue of Liberty and its famous inscription became a rallying cry.
Similar protests erupted at airports around the country.
Word of the protest at Kennedy first filtered out on social media from the immigrant-advocacy groups Make the Road New York and the New York Immigration Coalition. It seemed like it might stay small.
But the drama seemed to rise throughout the day.
There was the release of Hameed Khalid Darweesh, one of the two Iraqi refugees who had been detained, who said the United States was the greatest country in the world. “This is the humanity, this is the soul of America,” he said, surrounded by reporters and a handful of protesters holding supportive signs. “This is what pushed me to move, leave my country and come here.”
Just past 3 p.m., a man with a social media megaphone gave it a blow. “Everybody in NYC area — head to JFK Terminal 4 NOW!” Michael Moore said on Twitter. “Big anti-Trump protest forming out of nowhere!”
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The usual suspects: CAIR, Soros, traitors, organized it.
Look at the video. Muslim women, dressed head to toe, in black and headscarves, screeching. Democrat traitor Congress Communists at their side. The usual anti-Americans and globalists. Socialists. Homosexual perverts. Feminists. The same old crowd.
And Soros' money fueling it all.
Out of nowhere my a@@..Soros funded nonsense..open society..that is what they want..an OPEN SOCIETY where there are NO borders..where Jihadists can come in and implement Islam world wide
Nowhere my ass. Lying NYT bastards.
Just shows you haw stupid so many americans have become. A nation of sheep.
obamaphones...
Any fedguv employees in the crowd should be summarily dismissed.
Is there nothing that the Feds can do about Soros or will they have to wait until someone gets hurt or killed? The man is a menace to our society. He is plainly fifth column.
(Commie rat open border Islamist traitors)
notice how the media always portrays crowds that they approve of as “enormous” but, during the campaign, Trump could have 15,000 people or more and they’d report it as a crowd of “hundreds”. After all, according to them, crowd size doesn’t matter, except when they approve of the crowd.
The ‘failing New York Times’ (I love saying that) has done it again. Failing to ask themselves the obvious question of who is organizing the protests. Failing to notice the kinds of people who are protesting. Failing to admit that Obama and Carter have instituted bans from Muslim countries. Failing to see the importance of protecting Americans.
More Bullshiit from the Mexican controlled NYslimes.
A thread last night said they were unionized public employees Many many threads. Not sure which one
Considering the population of New York City I would estimate that as less than 1/1 millionth of the population, and they call that big?
These things have all the spontaneity of a space launch. They probably had the plans drawn up as soon as Trump won the nomination
Reportedly the Hamas-linked, unindicted coconspirator Islamist front CAIR was pumping these protests across its social media reach.
He needs to be arrested and charged with thousands of counts of inciting riots, sedition etc.
I'm sure Sessions can come up with a ton of them.
Can’t wait til President Trump declares the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR a terrorist organization
This appears to be an obedient “community” that has been aggressively “organized”, n’est ce pas?
The Left is no doubt very proud of this display. But what it communicates to most Americans is: we care more about Iraqi refugees than we care about YOU.
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