Apple, Facebook, Google and Uber prep letter to oppose Trump travel ban

Part of that may be related to just how many successful US tech startups were founded by immigrants.

Maryland-based immigration attorney Sheela Murthy released a statement January 30 on the proposed executive order, concluding that work authorization for H-4 visa holders would likely be in jeopardy.

Tech companies were far from the only ones speaking out against the immigration order, but they were, as a group, the most vocal.

Meanwhile, a group of technology companies plans to meet on Tuesday to discuss filing an amicus ( friend of the court) brief in support of a lawsuit challenging the order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Trump’s assault on the heart and soul of Silicon Valley, where 51 percent of billion-dollar start-ups were founded by immigrants, does not appear to be over.

Experts say the largest number of requests typically come from IT outsourcing firms that provide technology support to other companies. The technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year. Walk through any of Google’s cafeterias during lunchtime or stroll down Palo Alto’s University Avenue on a balmy evening, and you’ll see a mix of white and Asian software engineers. London was already on its way to becoming the alternative to Silicon Valley. “Apple would not exist without immigration, let alone thrive and innovate the way we do”. FB, -0.85% CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Alphabet Inc. With enough time, a lot of people can upgrade to higher categories.

H-1B visas allow companies to recruit internationally for employees with specialty skills when they can not find people with those skills locally.

The executive order would also cap the number of people who annually enter the USA under existing visa programs to 85,000 and require companies that use the programs to publish statistics within a month of the government’s fiscal year.

Vancouver already hosts satellite offices for tech giants like Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Twitter. Kermoian said that employers are “finding it very hard to hire”.

It’s just one week from the day president took oath officially.

Then-candidate Trump said he was unable to hire US workers for the positions filled by guest workers. Now, that’s giving way to open hostility. “Ultimately, we fear this executive order will become a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism”, the senators said. “There are more effective ways to protect public safety without creating so much collateral damage to the country’s reputation and values”.

People chant slogans at the Indianapolis International Airport. GOOG, -0.71% GOOGL, -0.49% co-founder Sergey Brin all publicly expressed their concerns about the ban, while Apple Inc. “In a global economy, it is critical that we continue to attract the best and brightest from around the world”.

President Trump on Friday signed the executive order to temporarily halt the admission of refugees, indefinitely ban the admission of Syrian refugees, and stop people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, and Yemen from entering the U.S. The move, he indicated, aims to keep the American populace safe.

Brad Taylor, a software engineer at Optimizely, told NBC News he chose to start the page on Friday after he was disheartened to read an article about Uber CEO Travis Kalanick advising Trump. They’ve blasted the ban as “simple bigotry” and “un-American”. Somasegar immigrated from India in 1989. So at least some those individuals who were traveling outside the US and tried to re-enter the country this weekend were detained.