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From Twitter’s Jack Dorsey to Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, tech CEOs are voicing they’re opposition to the new US zero-tolerance policy.
A 2-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the US-Mexico border on June 12 in McAllen, Texas. (Credits: John Moore, Staff / Getty Images)
A 2-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the US-Mexico border on June 12 in McAllen, Texas. (Credits: John Moore, Staff / Getty Images)
The zero-tolerance policy initiated by the Trump Administration last month and the consequent impact resulting in the separation of children and minors from their parents at the border is not just a subject of discussion in Congress. Silicon Valley has been voicing concerns and technology leaders are appalled.
Brian Chesky, CEO at Airbnb, and his co-founders Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk, have released a statement — posted in both English and Spanish on Twitter — calling for the US government “to stop this injustice and reunite these families.”
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Ripping children from their parents' arms is cruel. This policy must end.
— @bchesky
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Separar niños de sus padres y familias es cruel. Esta política debe terminar.
— @bchesky
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At Facebook, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerber and COO Sheryl Sandberg are fundraising for organizations like the Texas Civil Rights Project and RAICES.
“Listening to the cries of children separated from their parents is unbearable,” wrote Sandberg in a post. “The practice of family separation on our border needs to end now.”
We can’t look away.
According to the fundraising campaign page on Facebook Reunite an immigrant parent with their child, more than 137,000 have so far donated a total of almost $6 million.
Similarly, Jack Dorsey of Twitter has posted on the platform to support RAICES.
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Do everything it takes to #KeepFamilesTogether. What are the highest impact ways to help?
— @jack
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Donated to @RAICESTEXAS https://t.co/6BnfyTce5t
— @jack
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Dorsey has also retweeted Ben Wikler of MoveOn.org about ways to make your voices heard, whether through participating in the June 30th protests around the country or by calling your representative in Congress.
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@jack One thing to do is make sure people can find their local protests on June 30 at https://t.co/dtIVB4Lqvc. Another: call Congress, 202-224-3121. Another: give to groups helping families reunite and fight back-follow @leedsgarcia for advice.
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At Lyft, co-founder and CEO Logan Green tweeted his and his company support 12 organizations “to help the families and children that are being unjustly separated at the border.” The organizations include RAICES, Texas Civil Rights Project, KIND.
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We are taking action to help the families and children that are being unjustly separated at the border by offering Lyft Relief Rides to 12 organizations (including @RAICESTEXAS, @TXCivilRights,@supportKIND) #KeepFamiliesTogether
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Dara Khosrowshahi, new CEO at Uber, has also tweeted using hashtag #KeepFamiliesTogether. An immigrant too, as he pointed out in his post, Khosrowshaki said that “families are the backbone of society” and that the Administration policy is “immoral and just plain wrong.”
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As a father, a citizen and an immigrant myself, the stories coming from our border break my heart. Families are the backbone of society. A policy that pulls them apart rather than building them up is immoral and just plain wrong. #KeepFamiliesTogether https://t.co/g2Cu40zvcX
— @dkhos
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His thoughts are echoed by Sundar Pichai, CEO at Google, who said the policy is “gut-wrenching.”
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The stories and images of families being separated at the border are gut-wrenching. Urging our government to work together to find a better, more humane way that is reflective of our values as a nation. #keepfamiliestogether
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YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki also took to Twitter.
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Regardless of your politics, it's heartbreaking to see what's happening to families at the border. Here are some ways you can help: https://t.co/IFVG6g8AKO
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At Apple, CEO Tim Cook commented from Dublin, Ireland: “It’s heartbreaking to see the images and hear the sounds of the kids. Kids are the most vulnerable people in any society. I think that what’s happening is inhumane, it needs to stop.”
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins used words like “cruel” and “un-American” in his tweet.
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Must end cruel policy of separating accompanied minors from their parents - simply un-American. We need policies that reflect our values and do what's right for society. @Cisco @BizRoundtable #KeepFamiliesTogether https://t.co/E8QZfQ6amm
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SurveyMonkey CEO zander lurie tweeted linking to RAICES.
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Separating families is heartbreaking and inhumane. It's shocking to see the U.S. Gov't enabling or allowing this practice. I'm donating to organizations that are taking action to support parents and children at risk. https://t.co/lJlGXK2f9f
— @zlurie
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Jonah Peretti, founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, also went to Twitter with a very personal story about his grandmother.
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These stories break my heart. My grandmother was a refugee who told me the story of being briefly separated from her parents as she fled and the sheer terror of wondering if she'd ever see them again. The experience was still traumatizing as she shared it 60 years later.
— @peretti
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“My grandmother was a refugee who told me the story of being briefly separated from her parents as she fled and the sheer terror of wondering if she’d ever see them again,” he wrote. “The experience was still traumatizing as she shared it 60 years later.”
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Grateful to @BuzzFeedNews and other news organizations covering this and bearing witness. Telling these stories is a step toward reversing this cruel, dehumanizing policy
— @peretti
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Marc Benioff of Salesforce retweeted two tweets by CBS News correspondent David Begnaud.
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These images were just released by border patrol @CBP showing the McAllen, Texas detention facility that we were allowed to tour today. For now, we can only rely on what they give us. They will not allow us inside to film on our own. Why?
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I used the words cage and fence to describe what we saw. It reminded me of the kennel my dad kept his hunting dogs in when we were kids. To be clear, people are brought in and out: for showers, etc.
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has been vocal about his stance toward immigration, as his father — a Cuban immigrant — came to the U.S as a teenager. He reiterated this message in a tweet on Sunday. According to inc. magazine, alongside his wife MacKenzie, Bezos donated $33 million to TheDream.us, which helps undocumented students brought to the U.S. as children pay for a college education.
Here on Medium, Twilio founder and CEO jeffiel called what the Administration is doing by separating families at the border “a war crime.”
Intentionally separating families is objectively wrong, and we must fight it vigorously. No matter what excuses are made, let’s call this what it is: collective punishment. The practice of punishing family members is not just morally offensive, it’s also a war crime under the Geneva Accord.
Separating immigrant families isn’t just wrong, it’s a war crime
Different the situation for Microsoft. As mentioned by Axios, the company “found itself in the crosshairs for not only having ICE as a customer, but also having blogged in January that it was ‘proud’ of that association.”
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Our response to questions that have come up regarding separating families at the US-Mexico border:
— @BradSmi
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The company issued a statement:
“As a company, Microsoft is dismayed by the forcible separation of children from their families at the border. Family unification has been a fundamental tenant of American policy and law since the end of World War II. As a company Microsoft has worked for over 20 years to combine technology with the rule of law to ensure that children who are refugees and immigrants can remain with their parents. We need to continue to build on this noble tradition rather than change course now. We urge the administration to change its policy and Congress to pass legislation ensuring children are no longer separated from their families.”
Along those lines also a previous post on LinkedIn by Brad Smith, the company president and chief legal officer.
Father's Day: A Day for Families to Be Together
Silicon Valley pushes to #KeepFamilesTogether was originally published in Hacker Noon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
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