Uber under fire for profiting from taxi strike against refugee ban
Customers switch to rival Lyft, which also pledged US$1m to ACLU which fought the ban and helped those stranded
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UBER became the centre of a political battleground on Saturday after hundreds of Twitter users rallied behind the #DeleteUber hashtag to protest against the company's decision to continue operating while taxis decided to strike - refusing to pick up passengers at John F. Kennedy International Airport - in opposition to President Donald Trump's refugee ban.
By Sunday morning, rival Lyft had quickly seized on the issue, pledging to donate US$1 million to the American Civil Liberties Union, which successfully fought for a stay of the ban and secured the release of refugees who had been stranded in transit.
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