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(32,375 posts)
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 07:43 PM Jan 2017

New York Taxi Workers Alliance Halting JFK Airport Pickups To Protest Immigration Ban

http://jalopnik.com/new-york-taxi-workers-alliance-halting-jfk-airport-pick-1791737697



The New York Taxi Workers Alliance has announced on Twitter that it is halting passenger pickups at JFK airport in protest of the dozens of people detained under President Trump’s Muslim immigration ban.

The Alliance announced that it would be halting pickups at JFK from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. to protest reports of at least a dozen people who have been detained in the airport due to the immigration ban executive order signed by President Trump yesterday. One green card holder was released from detainment earlier today.

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Meanwhile, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance working stop joins a growing protest against the immigration ban outside of JFK airport.



Empty cab stand during work stoppage. Viva la cabbies!

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New York Taxi Workers Alliance Halting JFK Airport Pickups To Protest Immigration Ban (Original Post) Starry Messenger Jan 2017 OP
We need to shut all the airports down gopiscrap Jan 2017 #1
K&R for visibility! nt tblue37 Jan 2017 #2
Thanks to the cabbies. sheshe2 Jan 2017 #3

gopiscrap

(24,170 posts)
1. We need to shut all the airports down
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 07:53 PM
Jan 2017

it's not until people are directly affected and money is lost that the ptb listen

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