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发信人: Helsinki (跑步然后蛋腚地桑拿), 信区: EB23_Policy_News_and_Rumors
标 题: 扎克伯格继续发力支持移民改革
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Apr 11 10:14:55 2013, 美东)
(BN) Facebook’s Zuckerberg Forms Group to Push for Immigration R eform
2013-04-11 13:52:21.445 GMT
By Nick Turner
April 11 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark
Zuckerberg announced the creation of an advocacy group called Fwd.us to
lobby for immigration reform, higher academic standards and investments in
scientific research.
The group is backed by technology entrepreneurs and investors,
including John Doerr at venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers and LinkedIn Corp. CEO Reid Hoffman, according to the Fwd.us site. The
organization has offices in Silicon Valley and Washington.
The move injects Zuckerberg, 28, into a contentious debate over
immigration reform. Congress is discussing whether to open a pathway to
citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the
country, even as lawmakers call for stricter border control. Fwd.us supports
helping undocumented workers become citizens and is calling for an increase
in H-1B visas, a program favored by the technology industry that allows
skilled guest workers to come to the U.S.
“My great-grandparents came through Ellis Island,”
Zuckerberg said in a Washington Post opinion column announcing the move. “
My grandfathers were a mailman and a police officer.
My parents are doctors. I started a company. None of this could have
happened without a welcoming immigration policy, a great education system
and the world’s leading scientific community that created the Internet.”
Zuckerberg, co-founder of the world’s largest social- networking
website, has expanded his role in politics over the past two years. In
February, the billionaire welcomed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to his
California home for Zuckerberg’s first political fundraiser. In 2011, he
hosted President Barack Obama at a town-hall meeting at Facebook’s
headquarters in Menlo Park, California, appearing with Obama on stage as he
fielded questions.
--With assistance by Brian Womack in San Francisco and Kathleen Hunter and
Mark Silva in Washington. Editors: Crayton Harrison, Nick Turner
To contact the reporter on this story:
Nick Turner in New York at +1-212-617-6783 or n******[email protected]
To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Tom Giles at +1-415-617-7223 or t*****[email protected]
发信人: Helsinki (跑步然后蛋腚地桑拿), 信区: EB23_Policy_News_and_Rumors
标 题: 扎克伯格继续发力支持移民改革
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Apr 11 10:14:55 2013, 美东)
(BN) Facebook’s Zuckerberg Forms Group to Push for Immigration R eform
2013-04-11 13:52:21.445 GMT
By Nick Turner
April 11 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark
Zuckerberg announced the creation of an advocacy group called Fwd.us to
lobby for immigration reform, higher academic standards and investments in
scientific research.
The group is backed by technology entrepreneurs and investors,
including John Doerr at venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers and LinkedIn Corp. CEO Reid Hoffman, according to the Fwd.us site. The
organization has offices in Silicon Valley and Washington.
The move injects Zuckerberg, 28, into a contentious debate over
immigration reform. Congress is discussing whether to open a pathway to
citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the
country, even as lawmakers call for stricter border control. Fwd.us supports
helping undocumented workers become citizens and is calling for an increase
in H-1B visas, a program favored by the technology industry that allows
skilled guest workers to come to the U.S.
“My great-grandparents came through Ellis Island,”
Zuckerberg said in a Washington Post opinion column announcing the move. “
My grandfathers were a mailman and a police officer.
My parents are doctors. I started a company. None of this could have
happened without a welcoming immigration policy, a great education system
and the world’s leading scientific community that created the Internet.”
Zuckerberg, co-founder of the world’s largest social- networking
website, has expanded his role in politics over the past two years. In
February, the billionaire welcomed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to his
California home for Zuckerberg’s first political fundraiser. In 2011, he
hosted President Barack Obama at a town-hall meeting at Facebook’s
headquarters in Menlo Park, California, appearing with Obama on stage as he
fielded questions.
--With assistance by Brian Womack in San Francisco and Kathleen Hunter and
Mark Silva in Washington. Editors: Crayton Harrison, Nick Turner
To contact the reporter on this story:
Nick Turner in New York at +1-212-617-6783 or n******[email protected]
To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Tom Giles at +1-415-617-7223 or t*****[email protected]
