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		</div><p>Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has said the online retailer supports a lawsuit filed against US president Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order on immigration and refugees.</p>
<p>Fellow Washington state-based companies Microsoft and Expedia are also supporting the suit, which was filed by the state&#8217;s attorney general in a US District Court in Seattle on Monday.</p>
<p>The complaint and motion for an emergency temporary restraining order said the restrictions on immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries is damaging Washington state&#8217;s economy and hurting its companies.</p>
<p>In an internal email to employees at the Seattle-based company, Mr Bezos said: &#8220;We&#8217;re a nation of immigrants whose diverse backgrounds, ideas and points of view have helped us build and invent as a nation for over 240 years.</p>
<p>&#8220;No nation is better at harnessing the energies and talents of immigrants. It&#8217;s a distinctive competitive advantage for our country &#8211; one we should not weaken.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Bezos vowed to support Amazon employees in the US and around the world who might be affected by the order.</p>
<p>Officials with Amazon and Expedia filed declarations in federal court supporting the request for the restraining order.</p>
<p>Ayesha Blackwell-Hawkins, an Amazon senior manager, said the company has more than 40,000 employees in Washington state and more than 180,000 in the US, and they come from &#8220;every corner of the world&#8221;.<br />
The company is aware of 49 employees who were born in one of the seven countries targeted in Mr Trump&#8217;s order.</p>
<p>One employee affected by the travel ban is Asghar Farhadi, an Iranian who directed the Amazon Studios film The Salesman.</p>
<p>The film was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category, but Mr Trump&#8217;s order will prohibit Mr Farhadi from travelling to Los Angeles to attend the Academy Awards, the company declaration said.</p>
<p>The order has also affected 10 dependents of Amazon employees and seven job candidates, it added.<br />
Robert Dzielak, executive vice president and general counsel at Expedia, said the company employs about 20,000 workers around the world and 3,500 in Washington state.</p>
<p>Expedia plans to expand its services as a global travel company and believes it is crucial to hire talent from around the world &#8211; noting that employees regularly travel among its global offices.</p>
<p>The company is providing legal counsel and immigration services to all employees affected by Mr Trump&#8217;s order, Mr Dzielak said.</p>
<p>Mr Trump&#8217;s executive order &#8220;has restrained Expedia employees&#8217; ability to travel freely, for professional or personal purposes,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The order &#8220;imposes restraints on Expedia&#8217;s ability to efficiently operate its business,&#8221; he said.</p>
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