Each day, the deadline (March 5) is approaching that the United States Congress has to pass legislation that guarantees the permanence or at least a provisional continuation of the program DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or Ao Diferida for Arrival of Children), the initiative idealized in the Obama gesture that protects young immigrants, who arrived in the country as children, from the threat of deportation. Otherwise, the program will be effectively ended, as President Donald Trump promised and more than 800,000 young immigrants will lose their benefits.
We explain the whole situation better in this article, but the fact is that today more than 100 CEOs of large American companies have signed an open letter to the US Congress supporting young immigrants and asking the house to pass permanent legislation that guarantees their rights. Among the signatories, of course, Tim Cook, from Apple.
As the The Hill, the letter classifies as a “crisis” the prospect of removing the citizenship rights of the so-called dreamers (dreamers, nickname given to young immigrants). Here is an excerpt from the message:
We write to ask Congress to act immediately and pass permanent, bipartisan legislation that allows dreamers who are currently living, working and contributing to our communities to continue to do so. The imminent closure of the DACA program is creating a crisis very close to the workforce across the country.
In addition to Cook, other executives who signed the letter include Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Brad Smith (Microsoft), Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber), Meg Whitman (HP), Ginni Rometty (IBM) and several others. They insist that Congress create a solution to the problem until next Friday, the 19th, that the deadline for the project to be forwarded if they do not want to see the program close on schedule.
Apparently, the sea is favorable for immigrants: according to information from the same The Hill, a group of lawyers is close to closing a "solution" to the problem, with terms accepted by both parties and allowing the DACA to continue. The final answer to this imbroglio, however, will only be known in the coming months.
via 9to5Mac
