Despite the stay of execution granted by a Federal court, tech giants including Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft have filed a brief to contest President Donald Trump’s travel ban.
These tech giants are part of a list of 97 companies primarily in the tech industry who signed and backed the brief. Others are Apple, Airbnb, Box, Citrix, Dropbox, eBay, Intel, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Netflix, PayPal, Reddit, Salesforce, Snap, Spotify, Uber, Wikimedia Foundation, Yelp, and Zynga.
The brief states that Trump’s order introduced “sudden changes without notice, unclear standards for implementation, and no standards for the exercise of waiver authority”, depriving companies and employees of the certainty they need.
“This instability and uncertainty will make it far more difficult and expensive for US companies to hire some of the world’s best talent, and impede them from competing in the global marketplace,” it says.
“Businesses and employees have little incentive to go through the laborious process of sponsoring or obtaining a visa, and relocating to the United States, if an employee may be unexpectedly halted at the border.
“Skilled individuals will not wish to immigrate to the country if they may be cut off without warning from their spouses, grandparents, relatives, and friends. They will not pull up roots, incur significant economic risk, and subject their family to considerable uncertainty to immigrate to the United States in the face of this instability.”
Trump has received a lot of backlashes after he temporarily blocked immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries, temporarily suspended all refugee admissions and blocked refugees from Syria from entering the U.S. indefinitely.
