Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Leads CEO Effort to Save Dreamers
President Donald Trump's plans to cancel a work permit program for illegal immigrants has drawn the ire of Facebook (FB) - Get Report CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose FWD.us lobby group has led an effort by more than 350 company bosses that urges a rethink to the White House's approach to the so-called Dreamers.
White House officials have said that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an Obama Administration effort to provide rolling work visas for some 800,000 immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally as children but have stayed on and found jobs as adults, is still under review, but reports of its cancellation -- and the potential deportation of thousands of workers -- has raised significant concern among some of the country's biggest companies, who've said it would cost the U.S. economy nearly half a trillion dollars.
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