Gallery: Protest at LAX against immigration executive order
People gathered Sunday morning to protest the detention of refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.
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Thousands of protesters gathered at Los Angeles International Airport in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration.
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Dozens of lawyers and interpreters were on standby to represent detainees. They held signs, many in attempted Arabic and Farsi translations, to help family members who may not speak English get legal representation for the detainees.
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The protest officially began at 1 p.m. Sunday, but people began gathering at the Tom Bradley International Terminal early in the morning.
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People held signs expressing anger toward the executive order, Trump’s order to begin constructing a wall on the United States-Mexico border and the appointment of Steve Bannon to the National Security Council.
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Thousands of protesters crowded the entrance to the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX.
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A protester started a chant for the crowd in front of the Tom Bradley International Terminal. The chants called for the release of detainees held at airports as a result of President Trump’s executive order.
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Some of the protesters had family or friends who were detained by United States Customs and Border Protection agents following the order.
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Brent Blair, director of theater and social change at USC, gives his 2-years-old adopted son Obiora Blair a better view of the protest. With his twin brother Emi, Oboira has accompanied his father to five protests in the past year.
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Demonstrators arrive in front of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection office at LAX, which closed for the day. "Let's sit down until they come,” said one of the protesters.
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''I just want to say I miss him and I love him,'' Teyom Karimi, 7, said of her father. She has never seen her father, Amir Karimi, who is an Iranian citizen in Iran. President Trump's executive order bars Iranian citizens without permanent residency, like Karimi's father, from entering the United States.
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Protesters sit on the departures concourse of the Los Angeles International Airport. The crowd chanted “Occupy LAX” as they forced the Los Angeles Police Department to close the airport roads completely.
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Demonstrators pressed against the police line, emphasizing that the protest is nonviolent. “I don’t see no riot here. Why are you in riot gear?” the crowd chanted.
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Despite the peaceful nature of the protest, Los Angeles Airport Police officers arrived in riot gear and formed a line in front of Tom Bradley International Terminal to block access to the Terminal 2 parking garage.
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After 30 minutes of negotiation, Los Angeles Airport Police officers clear the roads on the departures level of LAX and reopened the roads to traffic.
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Thousands of people at Los Angeles International Airport protested President Donald Trump's executive order limiting the entry of refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.
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