The stories of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children have helped shape the conversation around DACA. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program allows individuals brought to America as children to become eligible for a work permit in the U.S. On November 12, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the plan to terminate DACA.
“By making it possible for Dreamers to apply for work authorization, DACA has made pursuing higher education both possible and worthwhile for Dreamers,” says a brief of 143 business associations and companies in a friend of the court document filed in support of the Dreamers.
“Forty percent are currently in school—almost all of whom are working toward a bachelor’s or post-graduate degree,” the document continued. “And a substantial portion of those individuals are pursuing studies in STEM fields—acquiring the knowledge and skills that U.S. companies so desperately need to continue to innovate and stay competitive.” (See full list below)
The DREAM Act (short for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act) was a bill in Congress that would have granted legal status to certain undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and went to school here. Although several versions of the bill have been introduced in Congress since 2001, it has never passed.
An estimated 700,000 young people have benefited from the program. Education in U.S. public schools through grade 12 is guaranteed by law, but most (if not all) undocumented students face legal and financial barriers to higher education. Several states have passed DREAM Acts or enacted policies that provide in-state tuition. Requirements vary by state.
Below is a full list of business associations and companies in the friend of court document submitted to the court in October 2019.
Business Associations
1. American Hotel & Lodging Association
2. BSA | The Software Alliance
3. Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America
4. HR Policy Association
5. Information Technology Industry Council
6. National Association of Manufacturers
7. National Association of State Latino Chambers of Commerce
8. National Retail Federation
9. North Texas Commission
10. Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance
11. Retail Industry Leaders Association
12. Semiconductor Industry Association
13. Software and Information Industry Association
14. Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia
15. Tech:NYC
16. TechNet
17. Texas Association of Business
18. Vail Valley Partnership
Individual Companies
1. A Medium Corporation
2. Adobe Systems Incorporated
3. Affirm, Inc.
4. Airbnb, Inc.
5. Akamai Technologies, Inc.
6. Amazon.com, Inc.
7. Ampush LLC
8. Asana, Inc.
9. Aspen Skiing Company, LLC
10. Atlassian Corp. Plc
11. Autodesk, Inc.
12. Azavea Inc.
13. Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc.
14. Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP
15. Best Buy, Inc.
16. Box, Inc.
17. Braze, Inc.
18. Brightcove Inc.
19. CareZone Inc.
20. Checkr, Inc.
21. Chegg, Inc.
22. Chobani, LLC
23. Cisco Systems Inc.
24. Citrix Systems, Inc.
25. Civis Analytics, Inc.
26. Cloudera, Inc.
27. Cloudflare, Inc.
28. Codecademy
29. Color Genomics, Inc.
30. Columbia Group LLP
31. Cummins Inc.
32. DoorDash
33. Driscoll’s
34. Dropbox, Inc.
35. eBay Inc.
36. Ernst & Young LLP
37. Exelon Corp.
38. Facebook, Inc.
39. Fastly, Inc.
40. Foossa
41. Foursquare Labs, Inc.
42. Gap Inc.
43. General Assembly Space, Inc. DBA
General Assembly
44. Golden Door Scholars
45. Google LLC
46. Graham Holdings Company
47. Greenough Consulting Group
48. Hewlett Packard Enterprise
49. Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.
50. HMS Holdings Corp.
51. Host Hotels and Resorts, Inc.
52. HP Inc.
53. IBC Bank
54. IBM Corporation
55. IKEA North American Services, LLC
56. Imgur, Inc.
57. Indiegogo, Inc.
58. Intel Corporation
59. JAND, Inc. d/b/a Warby Parker
60. Kickstarter, PBC
61. Knotel
62. Lam Research Corporation
63. Levi Strauss & Co.
64. Linden Research, Inc. d/b/a Linden Lab
65. Lydecker Diaz
66. Lyft, Inc.
67. Mapbox
68. Marriott International, Inc.
69. Medidata Solutions, Inc.
70. Molecule Software, Inc.
71. MongoDB, Inc.
72. MPOWERD Inc.
73. Netflix, Inc.
74. NETGEAR, Inc.
75. NewsCred, Inc.
76. Niskanen Center
77. Okta, Inc.
78. OpenAI, LLC
79. Patreon, Inc.
80. PayPal Holdings, Inc.
81. Pinterest, Inc.
82. Planet Labs Inc.
83. Postmates
84. RealNetworks, Inc.
85. Red Ventures
86. Rippling
87. Salesforce.com, Inc.
88. Scopely, Inc.
89. ServiceNow
90. Shutterstock, Inc.
91. Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
92. Spokeo, Inc.
93. SpotHero, Inc.
94. Spotify USA Inc.
95. Square, Inc.
96. Squarespace, Inc.
97. Starbucks Coffee Company
98. Strava, Inc.
99. SurveyMonkey Inc.
100. Tampa Bay Tech
101. Target
102. TaskRabbit, Inc.
103. Tesla, Inc.
104. The Nielsen Company
105. Thumbtack, Inc.
106. TNTP, Inc.
107. TPG Capital
108. TransferWise Inc.
109. TripAdvisor LLC
110. Turner Morris, Inc.
111. Turo Inc.
112. Twitter Inc.
113. Uber Technologies, Inc.
114. Univision Communications Inc.
115. Upwork Inc.
116. Verizon Communications Inc.
117. Via Transportation, Inc.
118. Western Union
119. Work & Co.
120. Workday, Inc.
121. Y Combinator Management, LLC
122. Year Up
123. Yelp Inc.
124. Zendesk, Inc.
125. ZenPayroll, Inc. d/b/a Gusto
IBM announced this week that its apprenticeship program has earned…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been tasked with…
Brown and Caldwell, a leading environmental engineering and construction firm,…
