APPLE, MICROSOFT STEP UP TO DEFEND DREAMERS FROM DEPORTATION

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https://www.wired.com/story/apple-microsoft-step-up-to-defend-dreamers-from-deportation/amp

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Tech executives are near-unanimous in condemning the Trump administration's plans to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. But some are going further than others in promising to help employees affected by the move.

Microsoft and Apple are offering the most full-throated defense of "Dreamers"---undocumented individuals who have been in the US since they were young and registered with the federal government to get work permits.

"If Congress fails to act, our company will exercise its legal rights properly to help protect our employees," Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith wrote in a blog post Tuesday, shortly after US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the administration would stop accepting new applications and seek to "wind down" the program. "If the government seeks to deport any one of them, we will provide and pay for their legal counsel," Smith wrote, of the 39 Dreamers who work at Microsoft. He said the company would also seek to intervene in those cases.


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[riversedge]

1. GLAD TO SEE THIS.

[Expecting Rain]

2. But wait...those are corporations.

[Warpy]

3. Anyone who owns a small business can sponsor a DREAMer

I need to look in to whether or not my dad's portfolio will allow me to sponsor one or two locally. Business owners are preferred since they can be employers of last resort.