"DACA is about more than just compassion", 30 October

Nearly 800,000 young people who qualify for DACA by being brought to the United States by parents and guardians without documentation now rely on Congressional action. That clearly raises an issue of compassion necessitating a humanitarian response to address the needs of these individuals, many of whom serve as valued employees of our nation’s largest companies...[T]here are 6 million unfilled job openings in the U.S...Many companies continue to experience difficulty finding sufficient workers to fill both lesser-skilled positions and high-skilled ones...On the national scale, foreign-born workers increase U.S. GDP... curtailing immigration would make GDP growth more difficult...[E]mployers who [rely] on the visa for...workers were vocal about its importance... "I'm always going to hire American first. I'm always going to hire someone locally first. We're not using this program because it's easy...It's very difficult and expensive, but we're using it because we have no other options."...[T]he United States’s attitude toward foreign workers has created opportunities for them to compete against American businesses. Foreign governments are facilitating the inclusion of foreign-born workers as the United States places higher scrutiny on its foreign worker programs.