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Hundreds of business leaders call on Trump to protect ‘dreamers’

September 1, 2017 at 8:10 a.m. EDT
A woman holds up a signs in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, during an August immigration reform rally at the White House. President Trump is expected to decide soon on the fate of “dreamers” who were brought into the country illegally as children. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Hundreds of business executives --  from Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and other companies -- are calling upon President Trump to preserve an Obama-era program that allows children brought to the United States illegally to live and work without punishment.

The national coalition on Thursday petitioned Trump to rethink his plans to scrap the five-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as early as Friday.