Friday, September 01, 2017

Apple, Facebook, Google and scores of businesses are imploring President Trump to protect the Dreamers - Recode

Also see Satya Nadella and Microsoft take strong stance against reported end to DACA (The Verge)

"The chief executives of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google joined roughly 300 business leaders urging President Donald Trump late Thursday to continue protecting children brought illegally to the United States from being deported.

Since 2012, the U.S. government has allowed those children — young adults now known as Dreamers — to continue living in the country as long as they obtain and renew work permits under a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

But Trump on Friday is expected to eliminate that legal shield entirely. Months after promising to approach the issue with “great heart,” the president reportedly is expected to order the government to cease granting work permits for undocumented young adults to stay. Meanwhile, the roughly 800,000 currently registered in DACA would not be allowed to obtain additional work authorizations once their current approvals expire."
Apple, Facebook, Google and scores of businesses are imploring President Trump to protect the Dreamers - Recode

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