Washington sources stated that apple Inc CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday filed a brief at the US Supreme Court opposing President Donald Trump's effort to end a program that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought into the united states illegally as children. Meanwhile the brief was filed on behalf of the company and Cook as an individual as well as Deirdre O'Brien, Apple's senior vice president of retail and people.
Furthermore the company said it has 443 employees who have benefited from the program, which was implemented in 2012 by the Republican Trump's Democratic predecessor Barack Obama. Previously Cook has criticized Trump's hard line immigration policies, including his plan to end the program, but has generally maintained a close relationship with the president.
Moreover the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on November 12 over Trump's 2017 plan to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and Trump's move to rescind DACA was blocked by lower courts. Perhaps more than 100 companies, including Alphabet Inc's Google and IBM Corp, joined a brief backing "Dreamers" at an earlier stage of the litigation. Apparently Cook's brief stated that the motivation for weighing in on one of the biggest cases before the Supreme Court in its new term that starts on Monday was to support of the company's diverse workforce.
