Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO airport (2017)

- Sergey Brin is a co-founder of Google and, at the time, president of Alphabet (Google's parent company). He immigrated to the US from the Soviet Union as a child in 1979. - This article reports on Brin joining a spontaneous protest at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on January 28, 2017 — the day after President Trump signed Executive Order 13769, which banned entry into the US from seven Muslim-majority countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen) for 90 days, suspended refugee admissions for 120 days, and indefinitely banned Syrian refugees. - The order caused chaos at US airports as travelers were detained in customs, sometimes for hours. Legal challenges quickly followed; the order was later blocked by federal courts and eventually replaced with a narrower version. - Brin's presence was notable because Google was one of many tech companies that publicly opposed the order, arguing it harmed employees, students, and talent from affected countries. At the time, Google employed engineers and executives who were dual citizens or nationals of the banned countries.