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Mark Zuckerberg posted on his Facebook page on Tuesday that the Trump administration’s decision to end the controversial amnesty program for illegal aliens put into place through an executive order by former President Barack Obama in 2012 was “cruel” and would “punish” the people who were encouraged to admit they were in the country illegally in order to get work permits and other citizen benefits.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, also gave these illegal aliens who were brought to the country illegally as children protection from deportation.
“This is a sad day for our country,’ Zuckerberg wrote, adding: “The decision to end DACA is not just wrong. It is particularly cruel to offer young people the American Dream, encourage them to come out of the shadows and trust our government, and then punish them for it.” Zuckerberg said the estimated 850,000 illegal aliens are our “friends and neighbors” that “contribute to our communities and economy.”
Zuckerberg said he personally knows some of these so-called “Dreamers,” and that he was impressed by the “strength and sense of purpose.”
“They don’t deserve to live in fear,” said Zuckerberg, who called on Congress to pass the Dream Act, which failed passage in the Democratic-controlled Senate, leading to Obama issuing an executive order in 2012.
“Our team at FWD.us has been working alongside Dreamers in this fight, and we’ll be doing even more in the weeks ahead to make sure Dreamers have the protections they deserve,” Zuckerberg said in his post.
As Breitbart reported earlier this month, Zuckerberg’s FWD.us lobbying group is rallying billionaires and millionaires to protest the federal government’s rising enforcement of the workplace laws, which help ordinary Americans earn good wages.