Travelers were spooked and freaked out over President Donald Trump’s Friday proclamation requiring H-1B visa applicants to pay a $100,000 fee as chaos spread at the San Francisco International Airport with some passengers demanding to leave an international flight, fearful of what would happen if they left the U.S.
An Emirates flight was set to take off from San Francisco to Dubai just after 5 p.m., but it was delayed three hours after passengers asked to disembark amid uncertainty over how the announcement would affect current H-1B visa holders, Reuters reports. The visas are a popular recruitment tool used by American companies to attract foreign workers to the U.S.
