Thread: Facebook Co-Founder to Push Immigration Reform at Movie Screening

by Tony Lee 3 Aug 2013, 11:03 AM PDT
breitbart.com



Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg will push comprehensive immigration reform on Monday when he speaks at a screening of "Documented," a film about illegal immigrants and former Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas.

Vargas revealed his status as an illegal immigrant in a 2011 New York Times Magazine article and has been an advocate for illegal immigrants ever since.

The screening is co-sponsored by Zuckerberg's FWD.us PAC, which was formed to push comprehensive immigration reform. Facebook, like other Silicon Valley tech companies, think the only way they can get an increase in the number of high tech visas is through a comprehensive bill.

According to BuzzFeed, Joe Green, who is now president of FWD.us, reached out to Vargas when he made his announcement. Green had been Zuckerberg's roommate at Harvard.

Vargas said Zuckerberg also sent him a Facebook message after he went public with his immigration status, saying, "That was amazing."

Zuckerberg's PAC, FWD.us, has a roster of advisers--like Republicans Dan Senor and Rob Jesmer--from Washington's permanent political class that have been strong proponents of comprehensive immigration reform.

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Even the once politically shy Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has become actively involved in the debate. Zuckerberg invested some of his personal wealth to help launch FWD.us, a group that's currently lobbying for comprehensive immigration reform; Zuckerberg is set to give an address on immigration next week at the premiere of a documentary directed by immigration rights activist and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.