About 58 percent of the engineers and other high-skill employees in Silicon Valley were born outside the U.S., according to the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, an industry trade group. The ban, tech companies say, would make hiring even tougher and pressure them to move some operations abroad. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella both came from India. In fact, tech companies might be more wary of backlash from the anti-Trump side. In addition, most tech companies have operations around the world and risk alienating customers abroad if they stay silent.

Source: ABC News February 06, 2017 09:59 UTC