As activists scrambled to fight for their release on Saturday, hundreds of demonstrators descended on LAX and San Francisco International Airport to rail against Trump’s travel ban, which many argue unfairly targets Muslims. It was not immediately clear how many people were being held at LAX and SFO. As of 5 p.m. Saturday, the ACLU said it was working on habeas petitions for at least seven people being detained at LAX, according to Jennie Pasquarella, director of immigrant rights for the ACLU. All seven detainees, four of whom are Iranian, either hold green cards or visas, according to Pasquarella, who said Trump’s rush to enact the executive order has exposed countless people to potentially illegal detentions. A federal judge in New York granted an emergency stay of Trump’s order late Saturday night, drawing cheers and roars of approval from the protesters at LAX.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 29, 2017 02:28 UTC