Trump's employee threat: Apple, Facebook & Microsoft hit back

Top tech firms have hit back at the decision of Trump’s administration to end a programme which protects employees that arrived in the US as migrant children.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a US programme that provides relief from deportation for eligible youth who arrived as undocumented immigrants in the US when they were children.

Trump’s administration plans to end the programme in six months’ time. With many of these immigrants now working in the US, employers have made public proclamations in protest against the decision.

Microsoft has promised to go to court to defend any employee who faces deportation. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s President, said: “It’s going to have to go through us to get that person.”