Walmart and Target are among the companies pressuring political leaders to find a solution for the roughly 800,000 immigrants known as “Dreamers.”
The retailers joined an expanded group of nearly 800 companies calling in a letter for U.S. legislation to protect immigrants brought into the country illegally by their parents from deportation. Specifically, the group is asking Congress to pass a permanent replacement for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA — a group of immigrants referred to as “Dreamers,” according to
Reuters.
According to the report, the letter comes on the heels of a similar request penned in August by a group of businesses less than half the size and weighted toward technology companies. This correspondence was sent before President Donald Trump said he would end the program.
Both letters were spearheaded by FWD.us, a pro-immigration group co-founded by Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
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