Large US tech cos join the bandwagon against Trump’s immigrant visa ban

The clamor around President Donald Trump’s 22nd June proclamation that suspends a host of non-immigrant visa programs is growing louder with several of nation’s largest tech companies including Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft joining the court battle. The decree bans new visas for temporary foreign workers, including H-1B visas for high-skill specialty occupations, H-2B visas for non-agricultural workers and L-1 visas for intra-company transfers.

52 companies such as Adobe Inc., GitHub Inc. Intel Corp, and Microsoft Corp separately filed a similar request in a challenge to Trump’s actions pending in Washington. “The president’s suspension of non-immigrant visa programs, supposedly to ‘protect’ American workers, actually harms those workers, their employers, and the economy,” the conglomerate stated. “Rather than shielding domestic workers from the threat of foreign competition, the proclamation all but ensures that firms will need to hire abroad to fill highly-skilled positions, for which the domestic demand far exceeds the available supply of workers,” the group said.