Silicon Valley CEOs, many of whom were immigrants or whose parents or grandparents were, and who depend on foreign-born talent to drive innovation, roundly decried the Trump administration’s executive order blocking all refugees and denying U.S. entry to citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries for 90 days.
“Netflix’s chief executive, Reed Hastings, wrote on Facebook that Mr. Trump’s actions ‘are so un-American it pains us all’ and that ‘it is time to link arms together to protect American values of freedom and opportunity.'”