Microsoft, Facebook gear up for new battle on DACA programme


  • TECH
  • Friday, 08 Sep 2017

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 07: Immigrants' rights demonstrators march in protest of President Trump's decision on DACA on September 7, 2017 in the Queens borough of New York City. Make the Road New York organized the event in the diverse Jackson Heights neighborhood in support of young immigrants facing deportation who had been shielded by the Obama-era executive order Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), now set to expire next March. John Moore/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Technology companies’ vociferous support for the children of undocumented immigrants could set the industry up for its biggest showdown yet with President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress. 

Executives from Microsoft Corp, Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc were among the strongest in condemning Trump’s decision on Tuesday to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme. Known as DACA, it lets children brought to the US as undocumented immigrants work, drive and enrol in college. 

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