On immigration, tech picks its battles carefully

Microsoft made headlines last week when both its president and CEO issued a strongly

worded statement in defense of DACA, an Obama-era program that allows immigrants who came to the US as children to stay if they meet certain requirements. The Trump administration is reportedly considering ending the program, and the president tweeted this morning that he expects Congress to move on the issue. The highly visible defense of an immigration policy adds to the very vocal condemnation of Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries earlier this year. Executives from tech giants like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook all spoke out against that move, and employees staged large protests at their worksites. Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who immigrated from Russia as a child to escape anti-Semitic persecution, joined protestors at the San Francisco Airport, and described himself as a refugee.                                                                                                                https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/5/16240068/tech-silicon-valley-immigration-travel-ban-h1b-daca