2,000 Google employees staged a protest over Trump’s immigration ban

News Hour:

More than 2,000 Google employees in offices around the world staged a walkout on Monday afternoon in protest of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigration in seven Muslim-majority countries. Using the hashtag #GooglersUnite, employees tweeted photos and videos of walkout actions around the world, including at headquarters in Mountain View.

The protest came after employees donated more than $2 million to a crisis fund that will be distributed among nonprofit groups working to support refugees. Google match employees’ donation with $2 million. “This was in direct response to the immigration action,” Enzam Hossain, an employee on the Mountain View campus, told The Verge. “We wanted to be a part of it, and support our colleagues who are facing it.”

Here are Google cofounder Sergey Brin’s full remarks from today’s #GooglersUnite rally pic.twitter.com/OPslALFRsp

— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) January 31, 2017

Both Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai spoke to employees at Mountain View. “The fight will continue,” Pichai said, according to a New York Times reporter who was on the scene. Brin told employees “it’s a debate about fundamental values,” according to the reporter, Daisuke Wakabayashi.

Google CEO sundar pichai at rally at Googleplex “the fight will continue” pic.twitter.com/cZOfn9FiGY

— Daisuke Wakabayashi (@daiwaka) January 30, 2017