Silicon Valley is Watch Easy Does It Onlineonce again striking out at Donald Trump's immigration policy.
More than 160 tech companies asked a federal court on Wednesday to kill the president's latest restrictions on travelers from several Muslim-majority countries, Recodefirst reported.
SEE ALSO: Snap, Uber and Facebook file brief opposing Trump's travel banFacebook, Google, Amazon, Snap, and Uber are among the many tech giants backing the legal brief filed to Virginia's Fourth-Circuit Court of Appeals.
The document (which can be viewed in its entirety on Recode) claims the revised executive order would inflict "substantial harm on U.S. companies, their employees, and the entire economy."
The document claims the revised executive order would inflict "substantial harm on U.S. companies, their employees, and the entire economy."
The companies say it will hinder their ability to hire competitively, pose challenges for employees abroad, and give more incentives for businesses to leave the U.S., among other problems.
The argument is similar to the one some of the same tech companies outlined in a similar brief opposing Trump's first attempt at the travel ban, which was shut down by a federal judge earlier this year.
Silicon Valley leaders have also generally been critical of Trump's immigration policies in public statements.
Trump issued another executive order on Tuesday that called for the federal government to re-examine its policy for H1-B visas granted to high-skilled workers. The move could also have big implications for the tech industries, which employs thousands of foreign nationals.
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