Leave DACA alone, Trump told by business titans following SCOTUS ruling
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A group of business leaders representing some of the largest companies in the country urged President Trump over the weekend to leave alone an Obama-era program that shields around 650,000 young immigrants from deportation – arguing in a letter to the president that any changes would cause further economic problems and hinder the fight against the coronavirus.
The letter -- sent from members of the Coalition for the American Dream -- comes less than a month after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration improperly ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, in 2017, and just a day after Trump said he plans to sign an executive order in the next few weeks which will include a “road to citizenship” for recipients of the program.
“As large American employers and employer organizations, we strongly urge you to leave the DACA program in place,” the letter stated. “DACA recipients have been critical members of our workforce, industries, and communities for years now, and they have abided by the laws and regulations of our country in order to maintain their DACA status.”
The letter -- which was signed by more than 100 executives and business leaders including those from Amazon, Apple, General Motors, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Starbucks – continued: “This is no time to disrupt the economic recovery of our companies and communities, nor time to jeopardize the health and safety of these vulnerable individuals.”
The DACA program grew out of an impasse over a comprehensive immigration bill between Congress and the Obama administration in 2012. Under intense pressure from young activists, President Obama decided to formally protect people from deportation and allow them to work legally in the U. S.
DACA currently serves as a protection for young immigrants that were brought to the U. S. illegally as children, also referred to as Dreamers, to allow them to legally study, work and remain in the U.S. without fear of deportation.
Immigrants who are part of DACA will keep those protections following the Supreme Court ruling, but there are tens of thousands of others who could have enrolled if Trump didn't halt the pr... (Read more)
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