Airbnb, Lyft, and 56 other tech companies file brief opposing Trump’s revised travel ban

A group of 58 companies, including Lyft, Airbnb, and Dropbox, are protesting the revised travel ban on majority-Muslim countries that the Trump administration released earlier this month. The companies have submitted an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed by the state of Hawaii against President Trump. The group wants a temporary restraining order on the ban, saying that it “would inflict significant and irreparable harm on U.S. businesses and their employees” — echoing the complaint against Trump’s original attempt, which resulted in chaos at US borders.

Last month, 97 technology companies filed a similar amicus brief in protest to Donald Trump’s original executive order on immigration. The new brief is somewhat lacking when it...

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via The Verge
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