Google CEO Sundar Pichai has issued a memo to Google staff members currently overseas, ordering them to return home immediately following an executive order from President Donald Trump that banned travel from seven majority-Muslim countries. Bloomberg Technology obtained a copy of the memo, in which Pichai commented that “painful to see the personal cost of this executive order on our colleagues.”

The executive order bans citizens of Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya from entering the United States for the next 90 days, and bans citizens from Syria indefinitely. According to The New York Times, some travelers were prevented from boarding flights to the US or were stopped at customs once they landed in the country. The order…

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