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6 Sep 2017

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Brian Heater, TechCrunch

Tech leaders respond as the Trump administration announces plans to end DACA

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The tech community hasn’t minced words since the president announced that he was strongly considering ending the Obama era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy last week... In spite of pushback from prominent business people, Attorney General Jeff Sessions confirm[ed] plans to end the policy... Tech’s top names are continuing to speak out... Airbnb's cofounders offered the following statement to TechCrunch. “We founded Airbnb based on the idea that our lives and our world are better when we accept each other. Those aren’t just economic or business values. Those are the values America has been and should be all about.”... Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted, "250 of my Apple coworkers are #Dreamers. I stand with them. They deserve our respect as equals and a solution rooted in American values." [In a letter to staff ] Cook added, “we issue an urgent plea for our leaders in Washington to protect the Dreamers so their futures can never be put at risk in this way again.”... Lyft co-founder John Zimmer... [tweeted] "Dreamers add to our communities and economy. Ending DACA is wrong - we now must work together to ask congress to act."

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