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Silicon Valley’s Biggest Companies Denounce the Immigration Ban in Court

Nearly 100 tech giants, some of them rivals, have co-signed a legal brief arguing against the Trump administration’s controversial executive order.
Source: Shannon Stapleton / Reuters

In the week-and-a-half since President Trump signed an executive order that would limit immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, the tech industry of American business. Many Silicon Valley CEOs , and others or for some of those affected by the order. This makes sense: Tech companies not only draw their talent heavily from overseas, but also frequently couch” and making .

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