Major US technology firms, including Apple, Microsoft and Facebook, are lining up to attack Trump’s government for its decision to end a programme protecting almost a million young migrants from deportation. Microsoft has promised to go to court to defend any employee who faces deportation once the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme ends in six months’ time. If the government seeks to deport any one of them, we will provide and pay for their legal counsel. More than 250 Apple employees are protected by the programme, he said, and many of them have been writing to the company’s leadership asking for action to help the so-called Dreamers. “I’ve received several notes over the weekend from Dreamers within Apple,” Cook wrote to employees.

Source: The Guardian September 06, 2017 11:26 UTC