Thompson has been covering the story live at jfks new york airport. Anne, what are you hearing . Reporter hi, richard. Take a look behind me. Youll see the protests behind the extreme vetting order irked by president donald trump. Its grown to a couple hundred people in the just the last two hour. Dozens of people have been detained here at jfk because of extreme vetting order. One of them has been released, ham immediate darweesh walked out to meet this family. He was detained at jfk for 18 hours. We understand from the white house he was released and allowed to come into this country because a waiver was issued to that executive order the president signed yesterday afternoon. There is also another iraqi man who is being detained here at jfk. He is married to an iraqi woman who is in this country. Although worked for the u. S. Government, he, too, apparently is in the process of getting one of those waivers. As to what will happen to the other ten people who are being held here in the
outright condemned by a lot of leaders across the arab world. this is not that full-on ban that was referenced. certainly, some are going to interpret this as an effective ban. you talk about the issue of allies. how is this going to be perceived by some and inconsistencies. obviously, as we ve been discussing throughout the course of the day, anyone looking at terror attacks that happened from the united states. from the most severe and spectacular, that of 9/11 and more recently, the pulse nightclub shooting in orlando, none of the countries on this list have emanated terrorists into the united states. from that perspective, people are saying these aren t the countries behind the attacks. some of them were actual american citizens, whether omar mateen or nader hassan in ft.