BUSINESS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top executives at a range of companies, business groups and academic institutions banded together to voice support for an Obama-era program protecting young, illegal immigrants amid concerns that President Donald Trump could end the policy.
In an open letter, more than 350 executives and other organization leaders urged Mr. Trump and congressional leaders to preserve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, a five-year-old program that offers a reprieve from deportation to nearly 800,000 people brought to the U.S. as children—known as ‘Dreamers.’…
The letter was signed by top executives at dozens of tech firms, including Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, as well as the chief executives of General Motors Co. and Starbucks Corp. and leaders of trade groups, nonprofit groups and investors including Warren Buffett. The effort was coordinated by FWD.us, a pro-immigration lobbying group co-founded by Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, who also signed the letter.
The White House also has faced pressure to end DACA from critics of the program who complain that it wasn’t authorized by Congress and is an overreach of executive authority. A group of conservative states have threatened to sue the administration if it doesn’t act to end the program by Sept. 5.”
-Laura Stevens and Douglas MacMillan, “Executives Prepare Push to Defend ‘Dreamers’ Program,’ The Wall Street Journal online, Sept. 1, 2017 12:23am