US technology companies are disappointed by DACA ruling and urge Congress to take action Reuters

Kanishka Singh

(Reuters)-Some US technology companies expressed disappointment at a federal judge’s ruling that blocked a new application for a program to protect immigrants brought to the United States from deportation as a child.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen supported some states’ prosecution to end a child entry deferred return (DACA) program, saying that the program was illegally created by former President Barack Obama in 2012.

Google (NASDAQ:) spokesperson Jose Castaneda said: “We have long been arguing about supporting the plan. In this case, we submitted an amicus curiae summary. ) Very disappointed by the decision.”

“Dreamers and immigrants have made the United States – and Twitter – better,” a spokesperson for the social media platform Twitter said in an email statement.

Twitter, Google, Microsoft (NASDAQ:) and Photoshop maker Adobe (NASDAQ:) urged the U.S. Congress to unite to protect the dreamers. Google said they hope that DACA will be “consolidated” as legal.

Microsoft President Brad Smith said that the “disappointing” ruling once again brought “uncertainty” to dreamers.

The judge ruled on Friday that the plan violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) when it was created, but said that because there are too many people currently enrolled in the plan—nearly 650,000 people—his ruling will be put on hold for them. The case and renewal application.

Biden, who was vice president when Obama created the plan, has stated that he hopes to create a permanent way for DACA recipients (or “dreamers”) to obtain citizenship.

On Saturday, Biden vowed to keep the plan, which would protect hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States as children from deportation, promised to invalidate the judge’s ruling and urged Congress to provide access to citizenship.