97 companies mixing in a legal battle against re-entry ban – NOS

But less than 97 American companies, including tech personalities like Apple, Google and Facebook, have joined in an amicus-letter spoken out against the re-entry ban of president Trump. The letter would in the first instance, later this week, but the process is accelerated after the judicial pronouncement of this weekend, say sources by news agency Bloomberg.

“Immigrants have a lot of important discoveries in our country done and were founders of innovative and iconic companies,” write the companies in the letter. That is a reference to, for example, Apple founder Steve Jobs and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who have an immigrant background. In this context, are also McDonald’s, Boeing, and Disney called.

What is an amicus letter?

That is a letter that companies or organizations can apply to the court for their support to speak for a certain party. It allows them the right – solicited or unsolicited – advice.

The court may then decide whether the information of the parties is relevant and should be added to the lawsuit.

The list of participating companies is long and that is rare in America. It shows how important this case is for the companies. Many companies, and especially those from Silicon Valley, are in a certain degree dependent on immigrant employees. But even a non-tech have the letter signed, such as clothing brand Levi’s.

Companies like Apple, Google and Facebook fear great consequences if the category is eventually allowed to continue. It will then be harder to global specialists to recruit.

Besides the amicusletter, according to Bloomberg techreuzen including Microsoft and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is also planning an open letter to president Trump to makes their concerns known.

appeal

This weekend, lost a Trump appeals in San Francisco. The ministry of Justice was an appeal against the decision of a lower court to the prohibition to suspend. A higher court has the request for the ban to undo rejected.

“It comes to an interim decision of the court”, said America-expert Victor Vlam yesterday against the NIS. “In terms of content, the case is still not treated. Many legal experts in the US expect that Trump ultimately has its way.”

The amicus letter is signed by the following companies

AdRoll

Aeris Communications

Airbnb

AltSchool

Ancestry.com

Appboy

Apple

AppNexus

Asana

Atlassian

Autodesk

Automattic Box

Brightcove

Brit + Co

CareZone

Castlight

Health

Checkr

Chobani

Citrix Systems

Cloudera

Cloudflare

Copia Institute

DocuSign

DoorDash

Dropbox

Dynatrace

eBay

Engine Advocacy

Etsy

Facebook

Fastly

Flipboard

Foursquare

Fuze

General Assembly

GitHub

Glassdoor

Google

GoPro,

Harmonic

Hipmunk

Indigogo

Intel

JAND d/b/a Warby Parker

Kargo

Kickstarter

CHILD.

Knotel

Levi Strauss & Co.

LinkedIn

Lithium Technologies

Lyft

Mapbox

Maplebear d/b/a Instacart

Marin Software

Medallia

Medium

Meetup

Microsoft

Motivate International

Mozilla

Netflix

Netgear

NewsCred

Patreon

PayPal

Pinterest

Quora

Reddit

Rocket Fuel

SaaStr

Salesforce

Scopely

Shutterstock

Snap.

Spokeo

Spotify

Square

Squarespace

Strava

Stripe

SurveyMonkey

TaskRabbit

Tech:NYC

Thumbtack

Turn

Twilio

Twitter

Turn

Uber

Wikimedia Foundation

Workday

Y Combiner

Yelp

Zynga