Companies, including Square, Twilio, Shutterstock, Airbnb, Lyft, Kickstarter and Pinterest,  have all filed a new legal brief in support of a lawsuit against the ban in Hawaii, according to reports on CNN late last night. Mr Trump’s new travel ban was due to come into effect today but the state of Hawaii said that it could do long-term harm to tourism by creating a global perception that the US is an exclusionary country. The ban's implementation has since been put on hold.

No different

The tech companies’ filing claims that President Trump's new travel ban is no different to his last one saying ‘it will inflict the same substantial and irreparable harm upon US companies and their employees,’ according to CNN. Last month, 97 companies, including Apple, Google, Intel, Netflix and Uber Technologies filed an angry legal brief condemning the President’s original executive order on immigration.

Vocal

Tech companies have been some of the most vocal in opposing Mr Trump’s policies.For example, at the start of the year, Google set up a $4 million crisis fund to help employees and other people affected by the original ban while Airbnb offered free digs to people left stranded by it.

Softer approach

President Trump’s new travel ban has attempted to eradicate the notion that it was designed to solely target Muslims and puts forward a wider national security argument. It applies only to new visas from Somalia, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya and Yemen and temporarily shuts down the US refugee programme but does not apply to travellers who already have visas.