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Tech companies join support of 'Dreamers,' challenging Trump

By Salvador Rodriguez

 

People march across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest the planned dissolution of DACA in Manhattan, New York City, U.S. September 5, 2017. REUTERS/Stephen Yang

 

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc on Wednesday joined a legal challenge by more than 100 tech companies against a decision to end protection for so-called 'Dreamer' immigrants, the companies told Reuters.

 

A legal briefing was filed Wednesday afternoon on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects immigrants brought into the United States illegally as children from deportation and which the Trump administration has decided to scrap.

 

Tech firms argue that such immigrants are vital to the U.S. economy and that ending the program will hit growth.

 

The filing is in support of a lawsuit filed by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in the Northern District of California, according to the filing.

 

Tech companies signed on to the amicus brief - a supporting document in a case, submitted by interested parties - also included Airbnb, Microsoft Corp, Salesforce.com Inc, Lyft, Uber [UBER.UL] and Twitter Inc.

 

Becerra filed an additional motion on Wednesday that seeks to put a block on the withdrawal of DACA. That was supported by iPhone maker Apple Inc.

 

"Apple will be harmed significantly if it can no longer benefit from the hard work, creativity, and intelligence of its employees with DACA status," said Deirdre O'Brien, Apple's vice president of people, in a filing supporting the motion. Apple employs more than 250 DACA recipients, the filing said.

 

The lawsuit challenges Trump's September decision to rescind DACA, which was established by former President Barack Obama in 2012. It is set to expire in March.

 

"DACA's rescission will inflict serious harm on U.S. companies, all workers, and the American economy as a whole," the filing reads, according to a draft of the amicus brief provided by one of the companies.

 

A week ago, dozens of tech companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook Inc, Amazon.com Inc and others, formed The Coalition for the American Dream, a group calling for bipartisan legislation this year that would give illegal immigrants a path to permanent residency. Reuters was first to report that the coalition was being formed.

 

About 900,000 immigrants have been shielded from deportation since the DACA program began.

 

(Reporting by Salvador Rodriguez; Additional reporting by Jeffrey Dastin; Editing by Tom Brown and Rosalba O'Brien)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-11-02

[keith101]

The American Indians where the first peoples to occupy the country after that every single person who moved there is an immigrant .

[jesimps]

It's a simple solution really, people with up to date documentary permission can stay, the rest clear off. Seems open and shut to me, but to the loony left, it's another excuse to criticise Mr Trump.

[Redline]

1 hour ago, jesimps said:

It's a simple solution really, people with up to date documentary permission can stay, the rest clear off. Seems open and shut to me, but to the loony left, it's another excuse to criticise Mr Trump.

It's your simplistic mind.  You can understand DT because he speaks at a 9th grade level   There is no way of getting rid of 1 million people that contribute to society more than all of these white trash folks trying to get them out.  It's too expensive anyway.  Oops, I'm not politically correct

Edited November 2, 2017 by Redline

[mrwebb8825]

On 11/2/2017 at 8:24 AM, keith101 said:

The American Indians where the first peoples to occupy the country after that every single person who moved there is an immigrant .

This is really a tired, dead-horse argument - by these same standards, all Brits should be labeled as Romans? Large parts of Europe should be labeled as Jewish?

Laws were established and it's about time they were actually aggressively enforced. America is a melting pot, not a dump site.

It's a very lame-duck argument to say that these daca people have had no opportunity to seek citizenship in the 20+ years they've been milking the system. If these tech-giants want to help then maybe start by funding the legalization of their daca worker's that contribute vital "hard work, creativity and intelligence".

Gotta love how the number keeps growing. Now it's 900,000, 2 months ago it was 800,000 and 6 months ago it was 690,000.

Hard to believe that a company the size of Apple is concerned about losing 250 illegal employees out of 1 million+ employees that are legal.