Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg voiced his support for undocumented immigrants yesterday in San Francisco. With activists, tech leaders and hundreds of undocumented immigrants and DREAMers assembled at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Zuckerberg and Joe Green, his Harvard roommate co founded FWD.Us an advocacy organization for immigrants in the US. With the public support to the immigration reform, Zuckerberg has proved that the Silicon Valley is pushing hard to win this game. Entertainer and investor MC Hammer, Groupon founder Andrew Mason, San Francisco Mayor, Ed Lee and the vice president of operations at Dropbox, Ruchi Sanghvi, were present at the screening.
Zuckerberg said "This is something that we believe is really important for the future of our country - and for us to do what's right…these are issues that don't just touch our part of the industry, but really touch a whole country." According to Zuckerberg, the United States has a policy that is unfit for a nation of immigrants. He further added that the Silicon Valley is an idealistic place having a major impact on the world. Zuckerberg shared anecdotes from his teaching classes for fwd.us sharing incidents when one of the undocumented kids felt he could not go to college because he was undocumented.
Zuckerberg was also accompanied by the country’s most famous undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas, a writer at the Chronicle, who publicly revealed his status as Undocumented in an article in New York Times in 2011. "Documented" a documentary written and directed by Vargas was premiered on the West Coast at the event.
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