NEW YORK (AA) - Global investment banking giant Goldman Sachs joined Monday the list of American companies that expressed their opposition to President Donald Trump's ban on immigrants from seven Muslim countries.
"This is not a policy we support," Goldman chief executive Lloyd Blankfein wrote in an internal memo, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Trump signed an executive order Friday that denied entry to refugees from seven "terror-prone" Muslim-majority countries. Since then, executives of American companies communicated their discontent on social media.
Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings called Trump's policy "un-American" and said in a Facebook post Saturday: "These actions will make America less safe (through hatred and loss of allies)".
Nike CEO Mark Parker sent an e-mail to employees Sunday, saying: "This is a policy we don't support."
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday that his grandparents came to the U.S. from Europe, and his wife Priscilla's parents were refugees from China and Vietnam, adding the U.S. was "a nation of immigrants".
"We need to keep this country safe, but we should do that by focusing on people who actually pose a threat," Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook.
Severaş American companies also offered services for refugees, in addition to voicing their discontent.
Online short-term housing rental network Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky offered free housing for refugees on Saturday, while the transportation app company Lyft announced via Twitter on Sunday that it would donate $1 million to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over the next four years. The Union received $24.2 million in online donations over the weekend, more than the $4 million it gets in online donations annually.
Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz wrote a letter to the firm's partners on Sunday, in which he pledged to employ 10,000 refugees over the next five years in 75 countries where the company operates.
Trump, however, responded to his critics Monday via a Twitter message, saying: "There is nothing nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter our country. This was a big part of my campaign. Study the world!"
"If the ban were announced with a one week notice, the "bad" would rush into our country during that week. A lot of bad "dudes" out there!," he added.