Twenty-four hours later, it was much blunter, calling the order “misguided<br />and a fundamental step backwards,” and saying it would create “much collateral damage to the country’s reputation and values.”<br />At an all-hands meeting at the beginning of the week with the chief executive, Satya<br />Nadella, who was born in India, Microsoft employees expressed their concern.<br />“The most important thing we could do is figure out how to use technology to depolarize the nation.”<br />Mr. McClure of 500 Startups said it was ridiculous “for the chief executives of the valley<br />to suggest things like hate speech and bullying speech aren’t solvable problems.<br />“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,<br />and they are developing new technology to work against policies and political discourse they don’t support.”<br />It is an improvised and complicated strategy.<br />“It’s not like you have 60 percent of the employees on one side<br />and 40 percent on the other,” said Ken Shotts, a professor of political economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.<br />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.<br />Here are portraits of those affected by the ban.
