Apple, Google, Facebook & 94 More Sign Legal Brief Against Trump Travel Ban

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February 6, 2017

You’d expect human rights groups to rail against U.S. President Donald Trump’s mind-blowingly shortsighted travel ban, but when business gets involved, that’s when you know his administration might just take notice.

97 American tech companies, including names like Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Uber, and even goddamn Reddit, have banded together on a legal brief against the ban.

According to The Washington Post, the brief details a deep, deep resentment on the ban, which blocks residents from seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the United States for at least 90 days.

(The ban has been temporarily suspended, but the Trump administration is still fighting to have it reinstated.)

The brief says Trump’s executive order “makes it more difficult and expensive for U.S. companies to recruit, hire, and retain some of the world’s best employees.

“It disrupts ongoing business operations. And it threatens companies’ ability to attract talent, business, and investment to the United States.”

It goes on to remind the reader that a whole whack of American companies were founded by immigrants or their children, before reiterating the ban will “impede them from competing in the global marketplace.”

This move comes after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took issue to the ban in a post on his own site.

Again, we need to be clear: the financial ramifications of the travel ban shouldn’t be the focal point. The move is demonstrably discriminatory against people who are looking for a better life, and that’s not even including the suspension of America’s refugee intake.

But the fact so many heavy-hitters have banded together to damn the move – especially after Trump met with several heads of those companies – is testament to how badly the prez has fucked up, and how counterintuitive his method of Making America Great Again really is.

Source: Washington Post.
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