Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined with an all-star lineup of technology leaders and executives today to launch a new bipartisan political advocacy group that advocates for immigration reform, called FWD.us (“forward US”). The PAC will focus on “comprehensive immigration reform that allows for the hiring of the best and brightest.”
Zuckerberg is one of 11 founders, with others including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt.
Zuckerberg penned this op-ed at Washington Post to accompany the launch of the new PAC. Below is an excerpt; read the full piece here.
We have a strange immigration policy for a nation of immigrants. And it’s a policy unfit for today’s world.
- Comprehensive immigration reform that begins with effective border security, allows a path to citizenship and lets us attract the most talented and hardest-working people, no matter where they were born.
- Higher standards and accountability in schools, support for good teachers and a much greater focus on learning about science, technology, engineering and math.
- Investment in breakthrough discoveries in scientific research and assurance that the benefits of the inventions belong to the public and not just to the few.
Changes like these won’t happen on their own.
That’s why I am proud to announce FWD.us, a new organization founded by leaders of our nation’s technology community to focus on these issues and advocate a bipartisan policy agenda to build the knowledge economy the United States needs to ensure more jobs, innovation and investment.
