Google, Facebook, Intel, Netflix, Microsoft, Apple and Twitter are among a large group of companies that have filed a brief in opposition to an immigration order by U.S. President Donald Trump, citing the benefits to industry from liberal immigration rules and the disruption to business as a result of the regulation.
A total of 97 companies from the technology and other sectors asked permission late Sunday from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to file an amici curiae, also known as a friends-of-the-court brief, in favor of maintaining a restraining order from a lower court on Trump’s decision that restricts the entry of certain classes of visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries.
"Immigrants are among our leading entrepreneurs, politicians, artists, and philanthropists," according to the filing, which stated that in the past the U.S. has maintained its commitment to welcoming immigrants, while also protecting the country through increased background checks and other controls on people seeking to enter the country.
The executive order signed by Trump on Jan. 27 suspended for 90 days entry into the U.S. of immigrants and non-immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, leading to a storm of criticism, including from the tech industry. Tech companies see the restrictions as the first in a number of curbs planned by the Trump administration on the entry to the U.S. of skilled workers the industry relies on, including probably a tighter H-1B visa program.
Trump's executive order was challenged by Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who asked the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to invalidate parts of the executive order for a number of reasons, including that it discriminates in the issuance of immigrant visas on the basis of race, nationality, place of birth, or place of residence.
区法院高级法官詹姆斯·L·罗巴特授予周五的旅行限制临时限制令，其中联邦政府提出上诉法庭逗留通过紧急议案。
特朗普的行政命令“阻碍美国公司吸引伟大的天才的能力;提高征收企业成本;使得美国企业在国际市场为地方竞争变得更加困难;并给全球的企业一个新的，显著激励生成操作和雇用新员工，在美国以外，”根据上周日提交的高科技产业。雷竞技比分
该科技公司称，他们还担心的是，行政命令曾表示，生成公司及其员工很大的不确定性覆盖在一定条件下可以扩展的国家的数目。
该高科技公司加入Amazon.com和Expedia谁在区域法院早前提交的声明，声称近期的入境顺序打乱他们的业务和影响员工。
上诉法院拒绝了政府的直接入住，而是要求华盛顿州政府提交反对简要周日应遵循联邦政府的由下午三时响应PST周一。