Employees at the Google campus in Kirkland held a demonstration on Monday to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order banning refugees and immigration from seven Middle Eastern countries.

The tech giant stated through a spokesperson that it employs 187 people from the countries effected by the executive order, and CEO Sundar Pichai has condemned the action. Two of Google’s main Washington state campuses are located in Kirkland, and the branches employ roughly 2,000 people.

With the ban in place, many people who have visas to legally work in the United States cannot leave the country for fear they will not be allowed to come back. It is unknown how many Kirkland Google campus employees are currently outside of the country.

Under Pichai’s leadership, Google has given $4 million to immigrant support groups. The money will go to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center and the American Civil Liberties Union, among others.

Google employees took to social media from the protest to show support for the growing protests around the country at airports and government buildings. Twitter has also become a place for the new administration to communicate with the American public — and to receive feedback.

“Solidarity demonstration at the Kirkland Google campus. #NoBanNoWall,” tweeted Kirkland Google employee Blake O’Hare.

Microsoft and many other local tech companies, such as Amazon, have joined Google in condemning the executive order. Microsoft, with its headquarters located in Redmond, has a high concentration of employees who live in Kirkland.

Microsoft President Brad Smith noted in an email to his employees on Saturday that the company is aware of 76 Microsoft employees who are citizens of the countries named in the order, possess U.S. visas and are affected by the order. Microsoft’s goal is to provide employees effected by the executive order with legal advice and assistance, he wrote in the email, which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published on LinkedIn. It is unknown if any of those employees are Kirkland residents.

Smith continued: “As a company, Microsoft believes in a strong and balanced high-skilled immigration system. We also believe in broader immigration opportunities, like the protections for talented and law-abiding young people under the Deferred Access for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program, often called ‘Dreamers.’ We believe that immigration laws can and should protect the public without sacrificing people’s freedom of expression or religion. And we believe in the importance of protecting legitimate and law-abiding refugees whose very lives may be at stake in immigration proceedings.”

This might not be the last executive order to impact local companies that value highly-skilled overseas workers. During the campaign, Trump also talked about overhauling the federal program that helps Microsoft, Amazon and many Puget Sound-area technology companies bring in highly skilled foreign workers on H-1B visas when they can’t fill jobs locally.

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Monday that he is suing Trump, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and high-ranking administration officials for what he calls an unconstitutional executive order on immigration. The suit echoes a statement signed by 16 state attorneys general on Sunday decrying the order, but it is the first official legal action of its kind in the country.

“[The order] is unconstitutional,” Ferguson said in a press conference Monday. “You can’t do that. It violates the rule of law. I won’t put up with it — I won’t. It’s our job … to hold everyone to the rule of law, and it doesn’t matter if you happen to be the president of the United States.”

The suit argues that Trump’s order, which indefinitely bars Syrian refugees from entering the U.S., suspends all refugees from entering the country for 120 days and blocks citizens of the seven countries from entering the U.S. for 90 days, violates the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, the federal Immigration and Nationality Act and infringes the constitutional right to due process. Alongside the suit, filed in U.S. District Court of Western Washington, Ferguson also filed a motion for a temporary restraining order which would call for an immediate halt to implementation of the executive order, no matter what happens in the courts. But Ferguson is moving fast: He asked the court to schedule a hearing within 14 days.

Other local leaders have taken a hard stance against the current executive order, including U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, Inslee and King County Executive Dow Constantine.

“We don’t need to close our doors to keep Americans safe and we still have work ahead to ensure the President ends his cruel targeting of individuals based on religion and nationality,” said U.S. Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) said in a statement.

The order’s “clear purpose is an unconscionable religious test” that would “discriminate against one faith,” Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee said Monday. “This is un-American. This is wrong. And it will not stand.”

The administration has been quick to point out that the ban is not one of religion, despite Trump stating that he wanted a ban on Muslims entering the country during the campaign. All the countries effected by the ban are predominantly Muslim.

Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates was fired Monday after administration officials found out she told U.S. Justice Department officials to not defend the new executive order. The Trump administration is waiting on Senate confirmation for Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama for the U.S. attorney general post.

“American Muslims deserve the same opportunities as all Americans – to build better futures for our families and children. American Muslims share the same American values and freedoms that we all cherish, knowing that we are all in this together,” Arsalan Bukhari, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-WA told the Reporter.

“All around our country we are witnessing the unjust detention or deportation of legal immigrants and refugees coming to unite with their loved ones, return to their homes/businesses/studies, contribute to the economy of our country, and/or escape persecution and start a new life in a free United States of America,” said Mahmood Khadeer, president of the Muslim Association of Puget Sound (MAPS) in Redmond, in a statement.

MAPS consists of members from more than 50 countries around the world, including those from countries affected by Trump’s executive orders, and Khadeer said many of them are concerned about how the order may affect them and their families.

Khadeer urged his community to remain steadfast in their faith, follow Quranic commandments of justice and getting to know each other and unite on their shared American values of religious freedom, equality and justice for all.

Redmond Reporter editor Andy Nystrom and Seattle Weekly reporter Sara Bernard contributed to this report.