Nearly five years after it was ground zero for the Trump administration’s “Muslim travel ban,” JFK International Airport is preparing to welcome Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban.
Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed the city is working with federal authorities to prepare for a facility at the airport to process new arrivals, and workers for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have been reportedly unloading equipment at Building 87 at the north end of the airport for what a Port Authority spokesman called “contingency planning” at the cargo facility.
