Microsoft takes a strong stance against reported end to DACA
As a close friend of one of the 27 Microsoft FTE employees living with DACA status and knowing their story, it&#x27;s utterly maddening and counterproductive that Trump&#x27;s administration would end DACA for the sake of his base. But then, he&#x27;s the president who pardoned Arpaio and banned transgender people from the services, so it&#x27;s almost an inevitability he&#x27;ll get rid of DACA at this point. Anything to &quot;trigger&quot; those liberals, eh?<p>It&#x27;s an established principle that we don&#x27;t punish children for the mistakes of their parents - that&#x27;s essentially the basis for DACA.<p>The biggest cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face part here is that these 27 employees are easily six-figure earners (I know my friend is...) - that&#x27;s at least $25,000&#x2F;yr in federal tax revenue (multiplied by 27 for $675,000&#x2F;yr!) Trump&#x27;s administration is giving up, sacrificed to the Republican myth of &quot;come here legally!&quot; when in many cases it&#x27;s outright impossible (thank you, H-1B visa caps).<p>I&#x27;m surprised the Reganite part of the GOP isn&#x27;t advancing a &quot;buy your way into citizenship&quot; policy: unauthorized immigrants who still made successes of their lives can make up for their earlier immigration impropriety by paying a &quot;tax&quot; in exchange for the safety of citizenship[0]. Why would anyone be opposed to that unless they were racist and&#x2F;or xenophobic?<p>[0] I know there exist Green Card-for-investment programs and visas with a similar basis, but they require at least $500,000 at-hand immediately, which is inappropriate for someone who is an employee, not an entrepreneur.