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A4 U.S. NEWS
Monday 30 January 2017
Trump travel ban sows chaos at airports, outrage at protests

ter Trump’s travel ban took
Continued from front effect. But confusion re-
mained about who could
“We’re really in a crisis stay and who will be kept
mode, a constitutional cri- out of the country. Federal
sis mode in our country, courts in Virginia, Massa-
and we’re going to need chusetts and Washington
everyone,” she said. “This is state took similar action.
definitely one of those all- A more decisive ruling on
hands-on-deck moments.” the legality of the Trump
Meanwhile, protests con- action by U.S. District
tinued across the country Judge Ann M. Donnelly
Sunday. Demonstrations will probably take at least
first erupted Saturday, a several weeks. Opponents
day after Trump signed and government attor-
the order banning travel to neys will get a chance to
the U.S. by citizens of Iraq, lay out their arguments in
Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, filings and possibly in oral
Somalia or Yemen. The arguments in court, Gel-
president also suspended ernt said. Activists said their
the U.S. refugee program goal was to have Trump’s
for four months. order overturned entirely.
Protesters rally against President Trump’s refugee ban at Miami International Airport on Sunday, In Washington D.C., hun- Chicago Cardinal Blase
Jan. 29, 2017.President Donald Trump’s immigration order sowed more confusion and outrage dreds of demonstrators Cupich, known for usually
across the country Sunday, with travelers detained at airports, panicked families searching for gathered outside the tempering his public com-
relatives and protesters registering their opposition to the sweeping measure. White House, some holding ments, did not hold back in
(C.M. Guerrero/El Nuevo Herald via AP) signs that read, “We are a statement Sunday about
all immigrants in America.” Trump’s measures: “Their
More than 100 protesters design and implementa-
also gathered at the inter- tion have been rushed,
national terminal at Dulles chaotic, cruel and oblivi-
International Airport out- ous to the realities” of se-
side Washington, cheering curity. They had, he add-
people arriving from Mus- ed, ushered in “a dark mo-
lim countries. ment in U.S. history.”
At the main Dallas-Fort University presidents criti-
Worth airport, some 200 cized the ban and cau-
people held signs and tioned students and pro-
chanted, “Let them go!” fessors from the seven
They awaited word on nine listed countries to beware
people detained at the air- of traveling outside the U.S.
port, most of them Iranian, for now The president of
according to the Council the University of Notre
on American-Islamic Rela- Dame, Father John I. Jen-
tions. kins, was among the sharp
Demonstrations also un- critics of the ban.
folded at Hartsfield-Jack- “If it stands, it will over time
son Atlanta Airport and De- diminish the scope and
troit Metropolitan Airport strength of the educa-
and in suburban Chicago, tional and research efforts
where a Jewish group or- of American universities,”
ganized a protest to sup- he said Sunday in a state-
port Muslims. ment. And he added: “We
Lawyers in Chicago respectfully urge the presi-
crowded into a food court dent to rescind this order.”
Saturday at O’Hare, some There was no sign the
walking around with signs Trump administration might
offering legal help. One heed such calls.
volunteer attorney, Julia The Department Of Home-
Schlozman, jumped on a land Security said in a
subway train and headed statement issued Sunday
to O’Hare even though she that “prohibited travel will
is a criminal attorney, not remain prohibited.”
an immigration lawyer. An official with the Depart-
“I just felt like I had to do ment of Homeland Secu-
something,” she told the rity who briefed reporters
Chicago Tribune. by phone on Saturday
A federal judge in New said 109 people who were
York issued an order Sat- in transit on airplanes had
urday temporarily block- been denied entry and
ing the government from 173 had not been allowed
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