Puppet, Portland’s biggest young technology company, said Tuesday that it will work to support refugees following President Trump’s order to ban migration from seven countries where a majority of the population is Muslim.
“The recent immigration ban that has placed travel restrictions on people who make important contributions to global and U.S. economies has impacted most businesses, countless individuals and families,” new Puppet chief executive Sanjay Mirchandani wrote on the company’s website.
An immigrant himself, Mirchandani attended school in India and said he became a U.S. citizen at the first opportunity. He promised Puppet would match employee donations to the American Civil Liberties Union, up to $25,000. The ACLU is among the organizations that has filed legal challenges to Trump’s ban.
Puppet did not say it opposes the ban, but said it will work to support refugees.
“Though we’re a small company with limited resources, there’s a lot we can do,” Mirchandani wrote. “We’re in the process of identifying how our employees at our offices around the world can support the refugees in our communities.”
Several tech companies have expressed varying degrees of opposition to Trump’s order. Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich told employees over the weekend that the immigration ban “is not a policy we can support.”
Columbia Sportswear and Nike have issued strongly worded denunciations of Trump’s action. And on Tuesday, the Portland Business Alliance and Oregon Business Council said they find the immigration ban “deeply troubling.”
Puppet makes technology to help organizations manage large computing systems. It employs more than 500, most of them at its downtown Portland headquarters.
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