Day 1829: Chaos in the Airports

On Friday at 4:45 pm, DT issued an executive order preventing all immigration from seven Muslim majority nations in the Middle East, effective immediately.  People in planes in departure cities were pulled off.  Those who made it to the US airport were detained.  Even people with green cards or dual citizenship were denied entry.  In my view, the order is unconstitutional, unjust, cruel and counterproductive.  It is the perfect way to give ISIL and recruiting tool.

Protests have erupted in all the major airports across the United States when immigrants and refugees generally enter the country.  JFK, Seattle, Boston, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Miami.  Crowds swept in and took over, chanting and shouting.  Swarms of young lawyers descended on the airports offering their services for free.  The ACLU filed lawsuits and secured the release of two Iraqi men who worked for the US government as translators.  Finally, a few federal judges issued orders that got those with green cards admitted.  Case by case, more have been released.

The order was so ill-conceived and poorly carried out that the entire world has been disrupted.  People who work in the US cannot return to their jobs, those in the US who have family overseas can't go visit.  Syrian refugees who have been vetted for years and were on their way to new homes have been turned away.  It's a major crisis and he's only been in office for ten days.  What more will he do to disrupt the world?

I took the day off from political action and worked instead on the bibliography.  I finished it, but in the process found a few errors and inconsistencies with the text.  The major problem is that I discovered that the CDC updated their recommendations on water storage containers.  Now I must go back to the equipment chapter and eliminate references to the bleach bottles!  What a pain!

These are from Saturday's Footloose rehearsal.

Backstage crew