Microsoft renewed its defense of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program Tuesday with a promise to defend its employees from deportation.
On behalf of the Trump Administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program would ultimately end following a delay, which could open up between 700,000 and 800,000 jobs for U.S. workers.
Under DACA, upward of two million illegal aliens have been able to obtain work permits and temporary protected status to remain in the U.S. since 2012.
Microsoft executive Brad Smith is already calling for an “urgent” amnesty of the roughly 800,000 DACA recipients in the U.S., saying that it is an “economic imperative” for businesses so they do not have to go through the process of replacing those workers with Americans.
“As an employer, we appreciate that the Dreamers add to the competitiveness and economic success of our company and the entire nation’s business community,” Smith said in a statement. “In short, urgent DACA legislation if both an economic imperative and a humanitarian necessity.”
“In short, if Dreamers who are our employees are in court, we will be by their side,” Smith said in the statement.
Though the mainstream media frequently reported that DACA recipients are children put through rigorous background checks, data on the population tells a different story.
The average age of the DACA population is roughly 22-years-old, while only .02 percent of DACA applicants have been interviewed in-person by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Additionally, more than 2,100 DACA recipients have seen their protected status revoked after they were found to either be criminals or members of gangs.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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