Tech companies on Saturday started to worry about President Trumps new order that banned all non-citizens from several countries that prevented them from entering the United States for at least 90 days. Trump had recently sat down with the executives of Silicon Valley and expressed support for their innovation efforts that extends to works who have visas and green cards. A federal judge granted an emergency stay that temporarily allow people with valid visas that land in the U.S. to stay in the country. The CEO of apple even claims that he has employees that our directly affected by this new order. Executives from Microsoft, Google, Netflix as well as educators at MIT and Carnegie Mellon have all been affected, Microsoft has 76 employees who have work visas. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, says "We need to keep this country safe, but we should do that by focusing on people who actually pose a threat." Even Uber has employees affected.

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