Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google and current president of Alphabet, has been spotted in San Francisco protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration action. Brin, whose parents emigrated from Russia when he was 5, was spotted at the San Francisco International Airport on Saturday night protesting Trump’s decision. Many organizations and groups have protested President Trump’s decision to sign the executive order on Friday, temporarily barring immigrants (from seven Muslim countries) and refugees from entering the country. President Trump said that this particular order was designed to prohibit radical terrorists from entering the United States. But the decision also consequently puts a temporary blanket ban for any refugee trying to enter the United States of America.
Verge reportedly tried to get a comment from Sergey regarding his protest, but the Google co-founder said that he was attending the protest “in a personal capacity” and wouldn’t be making any comments at the time.
Just ran into Sergey Brin at #SFO too – same story: here in a personal capacity, not giving comment.
Wish he had! https://t.co/BjfML9iwYf
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) January 29, 2017
Forbes Magazine’s Ryan Mac also caught Brin while he was protesting. Brin reportedly opened up more to Mac, telling him that he was protesting Trump’s decision because he considers himself to be a refugee too.
“I’m here because I’m a refugee.”
Google cofounder Sergey Brin at SFO protest: "I'm here because I'm a refugee." (Photo from Matt Kang/Forbes) pic.twitter.com/GwhsSwDPLT
— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) January 29, 2017
Brin’s family emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States after repeatedly facing a lot of discrimination from the Communist Party for being Jewish. Brin’s father has said that he was forced to abandon his plans of becoming an astronomer before entering college because Jewish people weren’t allowed to study physics in the prestigious Moscow State University and were barred from upper professional ranks. Brin’s family moved to the United States in 1979 when he was 5 years old.
And it seems Google’s current CEO, Sundar Pichai, isn’t that happy about President Trump’s order as well. Pichai, himself an immigrant from India, wrote in a statement in a company-wide email, that he was upset about the decision.
“We’re upset about the impact of this order. We’ve always made our views on immigration issues known publicly and will continue to do so.”
Trump’s decision has faced a lot of back-lash from leaders of the tech industry, with the likes of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Lyft CEO Logan Green, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, among others, expressing their disapproval of President Trump’s Refugee Ban and Immigration Restriction.
Trump signed the decision to indefinitely bar all Syrian Refugees from entering the U.S. He also put a 120-day bar on refugees from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. No visa will be issued to citizens of these Muslim-majority countries for the next 30 days. Trump called this decision “a measure to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of America,” explicitly specifying, “We don’t want them here.” Trump paid homage to the victims of the September 11 attacks, dedicating this decision to them.
“We don’t want to admit the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas. We only want to admit those that support our country and love, deeply, our people.”
I promise that our administration will ALWAYS have your back. We will ALWAYS be with you! pic.twitter.com/D0aOWhOH4X
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 27, 2017
President Trump also signed an executive order on Friday for rebuilding the military, according to Trump, “to build new planes, new ships, tools and resources.” Trump justified his decision with the following statement.
[Featured Image by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images]“As we prepare our budget request for Congress, our military strength will be questioned by no one and neither will our dedication to peace. And we do want peace.”
Google Co-founder Sergey Brin Spotted At San Francisco Protest Over Trump’s Immigration Action is an article from: The Inquisitr News
