CEOs from Amazon, Microsoft and Starbucks sign letter supporting 'Dreamers' program
The CEOs of Amazon.com, Microsoft, Starbucks and RealNetworks have joined 1,850 other corporate leaders in signing a letter to President Donald Trump and congressional leaders urging them to extend a program that protects the children of undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson and Expedia CEO Rob Glaser have signed a letter urging leaders that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, is critical to the economy.
“Unless we act now to preserve the DACA program, all 780,000 hardworking young people will lose their ability to work legally in this country, and every one of them will be at immediate risk of deportation,” reads the letter. “Our economy would lose $460.3 billion from the national GDP and $24.6 billion in Social Security and Medicare tax contributions.”
According to the letter, 97 percent of Dreamers — the name for those protected by DACA — are either in school or in the workforce. Sixty-five percent have purchased a car and 16 percent have purchased a home. The letter counts 5 percent of the Dreamers as business owners.
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