Twenty-four hours later, it was much blunter, calling the order “misguided
and a fundamental step backwards,” and saying it would create “much collateral damage to the country’s reputation and values.”
At an all-hands meeting at the beginning of the week with the chief executive, Satya
Nadella, who was born in India, Microsoft employees expressed their concern.
“The most important thing we could do is figure out how to use technology to depolarize the nation.”
Mr. McClure of 500 Startups said it was ridiculous “for the chief executives of the valley
to suggest things like hate speech and bullying speech aren’t solvable problems.
“The companies are working on three fronts: They are vociferously objecting to the Trump policies they think are bad, they are trying to engage with him to influence his behavior,
and they are developing new technology to work against policies and political discourse they don’t support.”
It is an improvised and complicated strategy.
“It’s not like you have 60 percent of the employees on one side
and 40 percent on the other,” said Ken Shotts, a professor of political economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
When President Trump signed his executive order on immigration, he upended the fates of people who had waited for years to get into the U. S.
Here are portraits of those affected by the ban.
