Zuckerberg Announces Immigration Reform Group in Op-Ed

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg waded further into the world of politics on Thursday with a Washington Post op-ed announcing FWD.us, a group of tech luminaries arguing for immigration reform.

In the opinion piece, Zuckerberg describes how, while teaching middle school, he met a student who showed promise but had no hopes of going to college because the student was an undocumented immigrant who was born in Mexico. "These students are smart and hardworking, and they should be part of our future," Zuckerberg writes. He then goes on to explain how his great-grandparents came through Ellis Island and — a couple of generations later — his family had joined the professional class. "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." Read more...