Technology companies have criticized the injunction given by Donald Trump for the citizens of seven Muslim countries, even if they have the right to work, not allowed to enter the US temporarily. Immigrants have an essential role to Silicon Valley companies, many of them are founded. Google, Apple, Facebook. Microsoft and Uber are among the companies that say employees are affected by the bans. Most hit are the Iranians have the right to work in the US, there is an important technological community.
Injunction applied in seven countries has sparked a huge scandal because thousands of people were stranded at airports where they flight to the US or its destination at US airports. The measures apply including those who own so-called green card (green card), which allow them to live and work in the United States. Saturday evening a court managed to postpone for a while at least some of the adverse consequences of the order, the Government unable to deport immigrants and refugees stranded at US airports. The ruling was however interpreted and applied differently, creating chaos at airports.
The seven countries are Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
Latest census data show that in 2012 there were more than 780,000 US residents born in these seven countries, most being from Iran (370,000).
Many large companies in technology have criticized the measure, with varying degrees of vehemence, the most radical saying that it is a kind of religious persecution in business.
US bans entry, designed to protect the country against terrorists, affects US companies that rely on people from all over the world, a good portion of very good engineers in Silicon Valley are born outside the US.
In addition, over half of IT companies worth over a billion dollars were founded by people who were not born in the US and bosses of large companies are born away from US. For example bosses Google and Microsoft are born in India and WhatsApp chief in the former USSR.
The idea common messages sent from big companies is that, although it is normal for the state to implement measures to ensure the safety of citizens, these measures should apply only to those who may be a threat, not all people in seven countries.
The most famous Iranian working in technology in the US is Omid Kordestani, born in 1963 in Tehran. He worked 15 years at Google where he was also director of business, with responsibilities over the years on the revenue side, customers, operations, marketing and partnerships. 2015 is director of the board at Twitter.
