zerohedge | Moments ago, we found the other "source of funds" missing link in the
ongoing anti-Trump executive order campaign. As Bloomberg reports, the
company footing bill for the legal brief signed by more than 120 mostly
tech companies that oppose President Donald Trump’s executive order on
immigration, is none other than the Company which offered Hillary Clinton its "strategic plan" to help Democrats win the election, and track voters, and which hired former Clinton Foundation CEO, Eric Braverman: Google (technically, its parent company Alphabet).
Eventually, the funding - which should be a nominal matter for most
of the tech giants who are on a crusade to keep cheap H1-B workers - may
end up being distributed: other companies have offered to fund a share
of the fee, Bloomberg writes, and Alphabet, which coordinated the
effort, plans to accept the offers. However, for now it's only Alphabet
who is paying Washington, D.C.-based law firm Mayer Brown LLP to handle
the friend-of-the-court brief.
The rest of the story is familiar, as per our earlier report, only instead of only 97 companies, the list has since grown to 128.
The tech companies emphasized the economic and social contribution
made by immigrants in their arguments filed Sunday in the U.S. Court of
Appeals in San Francisco. The companies support a lawsuit by the states
of Washington and Minnesota seeking to stop Trump’s executive order.
Apple Inc., Airbnb Inc., Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tesla Inc.
Intel Corp., Lyft Inc., Netflix Inc., Snap Inc. and Uber Technologies
Inc. are among the technology companies that participated. Businesses
beyond the tech industry who signed on include Levi Strauss & Co.
and yogurt maker Chobani.
