With a Washington Post op-ed Thursday morning, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his support for immigration reform with the launch of FWD.us, a new non-partisan organization founded by a host of well-known Silicon Valley leaders to advocate for policy to support the “knowledge economy.”
Zuckerberg based his newly-public stance on personal experience with the middle-school entrepreneurship after-school class he started teaching earlier this year. Some of his students are undocumented, he said, having been brought to the United States illegally when they were just babies. “These students are smart and hardworking, and they should be part of our future,” Zuckerberg writes.