The scene at JFK as taxi drivers strike following Trump's immigration ban

New York taxi drivers have their own response to President Donald Trump's immigration ban: A strike.

As protests continue to break out across major U.S. airports Saturday night following President Trump's immigration ban, taxi drivers at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport have gone on strike.

In postings to social networks Saturday the New York Taxi Workers Alliance announced that from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET there would be no pickups at JFK as a protest to the immigration ban that some are taking as a ban on Muslims.

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"We cannot be silent. We go to work to welcome people to a land that once welcomed us," wrote the union on Twitter. "We will not be divided."

"NO PICKUPS @ JFK Airport 6 PM to 7 PM today," the union wrote in a subsequent tweet that was retweeted over 10,000 times. "Drivers stand in solidarity with thousands protesting inhumane & unconstitutional #MuslimBan."

Additional tweets by the union and other Twitter users at the airport confirmed the empty cab lines.

It remains to be seen how long the strike will last. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance did not immediately respond when asked by USA TODAY.

In response to the strike, Uber tweeted late Saturday that it would suspend surge pricing for rides to and from the popular airport.

Following an earlier decision from the Port Authority, which helps manage New York's airports, to halt travel on JFK's AirTrain system, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tweeted that he ordered the transportation system reopened.

The strike and protests come after President Trump signed an executive order Friday suspending the entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days, halts the admission of refugees from Syria indefinitely and bars entry for three months to residents from the predominantly Muslim countries of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. Many on social media have decried the ban as "Muslim Ban" with many tweeting with the hashtag "#MuslimBan."

Following the ban's implementation Saturday, customs agents at JFK detained at least a dozen people, including a former Iraqi translator for the U.S. military in Baghdad.

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