Mike Gallagher, CEO of the Entertainment Software Association, at the GamesBeat Summit.
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Game trade group ESA takes a shot at Trump’s ‘reckless’ immigration policy

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Mike Gallagher, president and CEO of the game lobbying group The Entertainment Software Association, took a blast at President Donald Trump today for his “misinformed” and “reckless” immigration policies.

Buried in a message about the year ahead, the criticism called for a “better approach to security concerns” when it comes to “our foreign creators and storytellers,” Gallagher said in a post today. Trump issued a controversial executive order that effectively banned travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries, and many interpreted it as a ban on Muslim travel. A federal court has blocked enforcement of the ban, and an appeals court upheld that ruling.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.