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Google CEO Sundar Pichai fears impact of Trump immigration order, recalls staff

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NewsHubGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai has outlined his disapproval of the impact arising from Trump’s dangerous, inhumane and short-sighted sweeping immigration order, which imposes for at least 90 days a block on entry to the U. S. for citizens (including valid visa holders) from seven countries, blocks indefinitely refugee admittance from Syria and also caps the total number of refugees allowed to enter the U. S. in 2017 at 50,000, less than half the number that came into the country in 2016. The measure also suspends admittance of all refugees for a period of 120 days.
Pichai distributed an internal memo, seen by both Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal , which said that Google was “upset about the impact of this order,” specifically as it relates to restrictions placed upon “Googlers and their families,” as well as how it could impose “barriers to bringing great talent to the U. S.” Pichai also noted that it has been “painful to see the personal cost of this executive order on our colleagues” in the memo.

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