"The DACA situation is not an immigration issue. It's a moral issue. This is a moral issue," Cook says.

"The DACA situation is one that I am truthfully, as an American, deeply offended by," Cook says, according to an excerpt of an interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes and Recode's Kara Swisher set to air Friday, April 6 .

Apple CEO Tim Cook has doubled down on his objection to repealing DACA , an immigration policy which temporarily protects certain young, otherwise undocumented immigrants from deportation.

DACA is dead because the Democrats didn't care or act, and now everyone wants to get onto the DACA bandwagon... No longer works. Must build Wall and secure our borders with proper Border legislation. Democrats want No Borders, hence drugs and crime!

As the future of DACA continues to be negotiated, Apple executive Cook came down hard in favor of protecting so-called "dreamers."

"This is one that goes to the core of who we are as Americans," he says.

"Who among us would think that it's the right thing to do to kick somebody out of this country when they came here when they were 1, 2, 3 years old, that have only known this country as their home, that know no other country as their home.

"This just doesn't make any sense," says Cook.

DACA should never have been revoked, says Cook.

This was not the first time Cook stood up for DACA. In early September, he tweeted his support for the 250 Apple employees who are "dreamers."

250 of my Apple coworkers are #Dreamers. I stand with them. They deserve our respect as equals and a solution rooted in American values.

#Dreamers contribute to our companies and our communities just as much as you and I. Apple will fight for them to be treated as equals.

The same month, in an interview at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum, Cook said the United States ought to be doing everything it can to keep smart people here, including DACA participants.

"If I were a world leader, my goal would be to monopolize the world's talent," Cook said. "Smart people create jobs. ... I'd have a very aggressive plan, not to just let a few people in, but I'd be recruiting."

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