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Politicians all the time that people who want to come to this country need to get in line. they need to get to the back of the line when it comes to refugees, brianna, of course, they have been on the back of the line. and as we ve been reporting, freen refugees go through a strict vetting process. so for them, for the thousands of refugees who are scheduled to come into the united states in the coming months and now with this active ban, they have been at the back of the line, but now, they re not being allowed to enter the united states. and so that s why we re seeing a lot of people here who are speaking out for the refugees and the immigrants from those seven countries who are banned with the executive order. brianna. all right rosa flores in chicago, thank you. now to los angeles. there is a loud gathering of the protesters at l.a.x. cnn s dan simon is there. what have people been saying to you there, dan? reporter: well hi brianna, ....
Affecting some 218 million people from seven muslim majority countries. and despite images like those repeated in cities all across the country, cnn s own jake tapper learned that white house policy director steven miller told government officials yesterday that the american people are firmly behind this executive order and not to be distracted by what he calls the hysterical voices on tv. trump s chief of staff also refusing to apologize for any confusion. wasn t chaos. the fact of the matter is 325,000 people from foreign countries came into the united states yesterday, and 109 people were detained for further questioning, most of those people were moved out. we ve got a couple dozen more that remain. and i would suspect as long as they re not awful people, that they will move through before another half a day today. and perhaps some of these people should be detained further, and if there are folks that shouldn t be in this country, they re going to be detained. ....
In a small room and treated them as criminals or as people who may have committed a crime. they were six years old and seven years old, it s a terrorist just because they came from yemen, then i think where is the humanity? now the president issuing a statement that defends the ban, quote, we will continue to show compassion to those pleaing oppression. this is not a muslim ban, this is not about religion, this is about terror and keeping our country safe. m and now another sign of how surprising this travel ban was for some in congress, sources tell cnn a republican congressional aid blasting the white house over how it alerted capitol hill about the travel ban. the aid telling cnn the lawmakers in both the house and senate on the relevant committees are quote pretty pissed about how this went down ....
One week, they hope it s only the beginning of their new life in the united states. randy kay, cnn, rutland, vermont. the growing opposition to president trump s temporary travel ban from seven majority muslim nations has dominated the air waves this weekend. and we ve focussed our cameras on the demonstrations at international airports all across the country. the american civil liberty s union says it received 290,000 online donations this weekend. that totals about $19.4 million. that is about four or five times what they would normally get in a year just to put that in context, but what about the trump supporters who like what the president calls extreme vetting? cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter joining me now, and brian, you spoke with an aclu spokesman tonight, what did you learn? they will top the 20 million marker probably tomorrow, but for now, as you said, $19.4 ....
Program earlier today. these top editors and yes we never to cover what the protesters are saying. we have to find people who support the efforts. you ve been interviewing some of them here on the program this evening. especially gop congressman, they re not interested in going in front of the cameras to talk about this. even though they privately support it and they know their constituents support this as well. certainly the opponents are louder this weekend. you know, i spoke with one iraqi man who used to work for the los angeles times in baghdad. he basically kept the bureau online all weekend. he said to me, my father couldn t get into the u.s. this weekend. i m not so concerned about that inconvenience, i m concerned about next week. next year. right now, the opponents more vocal than the supporters of this. brian stelter, thank you so much for that. next on cnn, it is anthony bourdain, parts of unknown, thanks for joining us for cnn ....