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TheВ cycle of liberal outrage was fullyВ underway, and that cycle is incredibly difficult-if not impossible-to stop.

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Kalanick, who earlier thatВ day had said Uber was working to identify and compensate drivers affected by the immigration ban, cameВ back with a stronger statement, calling itВ вЂќwrong and unjust.вЂќ He alsoВ said UberвЂ™s lawyers would be on call to offer drivers legal support, and that the companyВ was creating a $3 million fund to help thousands of drivers вЂњwith immigration and translation services.вЂќ Uber competitor Lyft seized on the moment, announcingВ a $1 million donation to the American Civil Liberties Union over the next four years. Amid thousands of retweets, the same Twitter user pointedВ out that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was servingВ on TrumpвЂ™s business advisory team, sayingВ KalanickВ would вЂњ partner with anyone in the worldвЂќ to increase his own profits. Then, at 8:38pm,В it happened: A Twitter user spotted UberвЂ™s tweet about surge pricing, andВ reissuedВ it with scathing criticism.ДЇrom there the fallout was swift.

At 8:06pm,В New York governor Andrew Cuomo ordered the Port Authority to reverse its AirTrain decision.

At 7:36pm,В UberвЂ™s New York City account tweeted that surge pricing-its system of increasing faresВ in areas with high demand-had been turned off at JFK.

Also at 7:22pm, the Port Authority emphasizedВ that the AirTrain limitations were being implementedВ for public safety.

At 7:22pm, as protestors amassed at the airport, JFK tweeted thatВ theВ AirTrain,В which provides service from nearby subway stops to theВ actual terminals, would only admit ticketed passengers and airport employees to вЂњcontrol crowding.вЂќ.

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Shortly before 5pm,В the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an association of professional drivers in New York City with a large Muslim and immigrant membership, tweeted and posted onВ FacebookВ thatВ its members wouldВ stop pickups at JFK from 6pm to 7pm, to protest TrumpвЂ™s immigration order.27 executive order on immigration, and ground zero forВ the Uber backlash: Kennedy International Airport, the site of one of several protests against TrumpвЂ™s Jan. HereвЂ™s what what happened onВ Saturday (Jan.

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