From Apple to Y Combinator—tech sector denounces new “Dreamers” plan

Enlarge / WASHINGTON-US Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks on immigration at the Justice Department September 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. Sessions announced that the Trump Administration is ending the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program-which protected those who were brought to the US illegally as children-with a six-month delay for Congress to put in replacement legislation. (credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Leading technology-sector bosses denounced President Donald Trump's move Tuesday to end a program that had prevented the deportation of so-called "Dreamers," people who illegally came to the US as children.

Apple chief Tim Cook told employees in an e-mail that "We issue an urgent plea for our leaders in Washington to protect the Dreamers so their futures can never be put at risk in this way again." Cook has tweeted that 250 people who are Dreamers work for Apple.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took to his social media network, saying Trump's decision was "cruel."

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