Trump talks immigration with Steve Jobs’s widow

President Trump met with Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow Apple founder Steve Jobs, on Wednesday to discuss immigration and education policy, two focuses of Jobs’s Emerson Collective.

During the presidential campaign, Laurene Powell Jobs donated to Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Trump has rattled some in the tech world with his immigration policies. Last week, the administration issued a revised order barring citizens of six predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S., and it has announced plans to slow down the process for high-skilled workers to obtain visas.

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Steve Jobs is often cited as someone who would have been affected by Trump’s travel ban, had it existed prior. Jobs’s father immigrated to the U.S. from Syria — one of the countries on the list — in 1952.

Apple was an outspoken critic of Trump’s initial travel ban. The company signed onto an amicus brief along with 100 other tech companies in support of a lawsuit against the measure in February.

In an internal memo to employees, Cook also hammered Trump’s order.

“It is not a policy we support,” Cook wrote, “Apple believes deeply in the importance of immigration — both to our company and to our nation’s future.”