Tech firms call workers home, decry entry banReuters Without immigration, Apple would not exist; the co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, was the son of a Syrian immigrant. Google chief executive Sundar Pichai late ordered scores of staffers travelling overseas to return to the United States immediately. "It's painful to see the personal cost of this executive order on our colleagues," wrote Pichai. Thousands of tech workers living in Silicon Valley or abroad could potentially be impacted by Trump's executive order, according to Zahra Billoo, executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area office of Council on American-Islamic Relations. Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey said in a tweet that the economic impact of the ban is "real and upsetting".

Source: Stuff January 29, 2017 22:07 UTC