Apple has added its name to a letter of support for a legal challenge to President Trump’s attempts to end DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program which protects undocumented immigrants who were brought into the U.S. when they were minors.
Other tech companies to sign the brief include IBM, Google, Lyft, Microsoft, Twitter, and others.
Apple says that it employs 250 DACA holders in 28 states. Apple noted in its own court filing that:
“These talented and entrepreneurial people fill important and varied roles across the company, including in operations, research and development, administration, sales and marketing, and retail. Apple and its customers have benefitted greatly from their intelligence, ambition, creativity, resilience, and hard work. These employees are important contributors to Apple’s unique culture. That unique culture enables employees throughout Apple to do the best work of their lives and excel at creating the most innovative products and providing the very best customer service.”
This isn’t the first time Apple has voiced its opposition to rescinding DACA. Back in September, Tim Cook joined the CEOs of Microsoft, Amazon, HP, Google, and others in signing a letter from immigration reform group FWD.us. The letter asked that President Donald Trump keep in place legal protection under the DACA act, arguing that they are vital to the economy, and “with them, we grow and create jobs.”
Apple also previously clashed with President Trump on the subject of immigration when opposing Trump’s controversial executive order temporarily barring people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. In the aftermath, Cook said that Apple employees affected by the ban would be able to draw on Apple’s expert HR, legal and security teams.
Source: Axios
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
8 responses to “Apple joins other tech giants in opposing plans to end DACA”
Cheap labor. Of course Apple is for it – as long as white males continue to dominate their cushy Director, VP, and exec slots.
Take your racism and get the héll out of here, please.
APPLE has the high percentage of WHITE MALES. APPLE. Where are the latino Senior VPs?
How am *I* the racist? APPLE is the racist.
>>APPLE has the high percentage of WHITE MALES.
Okay. And?
>>Where are the latino Senior VPs?
What’s your point, racist?
>>Sure, they want DACA employees…for the lower level positions.
Do you have any idea what DACA is?
>>How am *I* the racist?
What’s your problem with white males, racist? Why are white males bad, racist? Why can’t white males serve in those positions, racist?
>>APPLE is the racist.
Learn what words mean before you use them.
You are an idiot. And you’re flagged and blocked.
Hey, I don’t really care what you have to say, RACIST. You’ve really done a number on yourself now. Explain why it is bad that white males have jobs at Apple, RACIST. Explain why you think white males should be passed over for someone else, RACIST.
Too bad, Apple. Globalism ends now. This madness ends now. No more “trade deals” which serve only to redistribute wealth. You don’t need a “deal” to do trade. You just trade. It’s over. We are going to be an isolationist nation again within 20 years. The technology industry needs to get with the program or enjoy its bankruptcy.
Trump ended DACA to force congress to make proper legislation to replace Obama’s executive order, demagogues won’t listen though.