Well your first statement is just your opinion! A core mission of google is to foster innovation, at the big and small levels. The company considers itself dri

Well your first statement is just your opinion! A core mission of google is to foster innovation, at the big and small levels. The company considers itself driven by innovation. So how do you grow the next billion users, which is a business goal, has implications in who you hire etc. Also, a lot of googlers are immigrants, very smart people who have moved to the us. Basic human consideration about their fate is a dilemma. To blithely say it’s “just” a hr problem, well that sort of seems to me like it’s actually a non problem at all.