Tech Firms Including Apple, Google Fight Immigration Order
February 06 2017 - 3:53AM
Dow Jones News
By Greg Bensinger
A group of nearly 100 technology companies including Apple Inc.
and Alphabet Inc.'s Google are banding together to fight the Trump
administration's controversial travel ban.
In a joint amicus brief filed in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals on Sunday, the firms challenged President Donald Trump's
executive order which temporarily restricts citizens of seven
Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. The administration
says the ban is required to keep terrorists out.
The federal appeals court in San Francisco is reviewing an
appeal by the administration after a federal judge in Seattle put a
temporary hold on the restrictions late last week. Over the
weekend, Mr. Trump criticized U.S. District Judge James Robart's
ruling to issue a restraining order against enforcement of the
travel ban.
The companies, which include Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp.,
eBay Inc., Intel Corp. and Uber Technologies Inc., among others,
charge the executive order violates the Constitution, is
discriminatory and hinders their ability to recruit talent.
"The order inflicts significant harm on American business,
innovation, and growth," the companies state, according to a copy
of the brief reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. "The order
effects a sudden shift in the rules governing entry into the United
States, and is inflicting substantial harm on U.S. companies."
The brief is the latest salvo in a simmering standoff between
Silicon Valley technology companies and the Trump administration,
still in its first month. Under pressure from customers and
employees, Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick last week stepped
down from a business leader advisory committee to the president,
and the heads of Apple and Alphabet have openly criticized the
president.
Write to Greg Bensinger at greg.bensinger@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
February 06, 2017 03:38 ET (08:38 GMT)
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