Dozens Of Tech Companies Take Legal Action Against Trump's #MuslimBan

We’ve already seen millions of citizens and dozen of foreign countries announce their displeasure with Trump’s policies. Now the tech world is getting involved, too.

Almost 100 different companies, including some of Silicon Valley’s biggest players, have filed a brief against the President’s travel ban.

To give you a sense of how major this is, here are a few of the companies involved in this official, legal document: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Intel, eBay, Netflix, and Uber. These are the biggest boys on the block, and they’re all coming together to fight Trump.

The brief basically says that the ban isn’t in America’s best business interests. Their argument is, by making it more and more difficult to enter the United States, top international talent will opt to work overseas.

Or, in their words: "Highly skilled immigrants will be more interested in working abroad, in places where they and their colleagues can travel freely and with assurance that their immigration status will not suddenly be revoked. Multinational companies will have strong incentives... to base operations outside the United States or to move or hire employees and make investments abroad. Ultimately, American workers and the economy will suffer as a result."

In a sense, the companies filing this brief are fighting fire with fire. A cornerstone of Trump’s campaign was bringing jobs back to America; this document says he’s doing the exact opposite.

To drive their point home, the document points out just how much our national industry depends on open borders. They claim over 200 of the businesses on the Fortune 500 list were founded by immigrants or their children, and that, “Collectively, these companies generate annual revenue of $4.2 trillion, and employ millions of Americans."

Hopefully our most successful businesses can teach Trump a thing or two about how businesses actually work.