It was a turbulent day at Boston’s Logan airport, as attorneys fighting President Donald’s Trump executive orders on immigration scrambled to keep up with incoming flights and incoming court rulings.
Volunteer lawyers crowded logan’s international terminal waiting for two Lufthansa flights carrying passengers coming back from countries on the banned list — several of them Massachusetts students, and many coming after having been in Iran.
The flights have been allowed in since a judge issued a temporary restraining order halting the executive order on travel, at least here.
Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern was there to greet a constituent who attends the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and who was in Tehran when the executive order was issued.
"There are a number of students from MIT here as well and I want them to know that they’re welcome here," McGovern said, "And I want to be here to apologize for the behavior of my president."
Just hours later word came down that a judge had declined to extend the injunction allowing flights into Boston — news that was seemingly super-ceded just another hour later by a Seattle judge’s ordering a nationwide injunction on the president’s executive order.
