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Michelle Larue: Los Angeles and Airport

michelle larue: Protesters swarmed major airports across the nation Saturday, according to Hamilton Spectator. In Chicago, thousands of demonstrators gathered at O'Hare International Airport. We will not stop until this executive order is cancelled and we arrive at common-sense, immigration reform that takes into account the lives of immigrant and refugee families, said Michelle LaRue, Virginia state director for the advocacy group CASA, which was planning to protest at Dulles International Airport outside Washington. In New York, more than 2,000 at John F. Kennedy Airport chanted let them in! At Los Angeles International Airport, 200 protesters, shouted, No Trump, No KKK, No fascist USA. More protests were planned Sunday at major airports from Los Angeles to Chicago to New York. The executive order, signed Friday, suspends entry of all refugees to the U.S. for 120 days, halts admission of refugees from Syria indefinitely and bars entry for three months to residents from the predominantly Muslim countries of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. But also at small airports, Main streets and town squares from Bangor, Maine, to Bloomington, Indiana, to Boise. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.