Microsoft says it will pay legal fees to fight Dreamer employee deportation

Microsoft will cover legal fees for employees who face deportation after the end of the Dreamers immigration program, the company says. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer, made the promise in a statement condemning Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — something Smith called “a big step back for our entire country.”

Smith says Microsoft employs 39 people that are known to be protected by DACA, and that “if Dreamers who are our employees are in court, we will be by their side.” That includes providing paid legal counsel, filing an amicus brief on behalf of the employee, and seeking ways to directly intervene. Microsoft will also “work as needed with other companies and the...

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