protests against US travel restrictions: continues to have an impact on #Google

Response to the Trump administration’s move to temporarily restrict travel to the US from seven Muslim-majority nations continues to have an impact on Google today. Employees staged protests against that decision at several of its offices, including its main headquarters in Mountain View, California. The company did not directly organize the protests but is supporting them.

Forbes reports that over 2,000 of Google’s employees took part in the protests. At the main Mountain View campus, Google CEO Sunar Pichai spoke to the assembled workers outside to support their efforts. He was joined by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who spoke of his own experience as an immigrant many years ago.

Pichai had already stated in a memo that the actions made by the new administration could not only negatively affect a number of its current employees but also hinder its efforts to recruit top talent from the seven countries that are covered in the travel restrictions.

Under the new orders, travelers, except for US citizens, who come from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen will not be able to enter the country for 90 days. The exceptions are people from those countries who already have a green card to enter the United States. The US Refugee Admissions Program has also been suspended for 120 days and refugees from Syria have been banned indefinitely from entering the US. The Trump administration said this move was made to fight possible terrorists threats from those nations until a new travel policy could be put in place.

This weekend, Google said it will donate a total of $4 million to help support pro-immigrant organizations. Half of the money will be donated by employees, with Google offering matching funds. Google has joined a number of major tech companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook, who have made public statements against the travel ban.

Source:AndroidAuthority

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