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| A 2-year-old Honduran asylum seeker wails as her mother is being searched and detained near the US-Mexico border on June 12 in McAllen, Texas. |
Silicon Valley leaders reacted to the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy toward migrant families crossing into the US.
Charlotte and Dave Willner set up a fundraiser on Facebook on Saturday to help reunite families affected by the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" approach toward undocumented immigrants, USA Today reported Monday. Their original goal was to raise $1,500.
On Friday, over $18 million has been raised from about 488,000 philanthropists. It's remarkably the largest single fundraiser to date using Facebook Fundraisers, and a spokesman for the social network confirmed that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg both made donations.
The couple, both previous Facebook representatives who presently work at other tech organizations, felt "sympathetic" by the in excess of 2,000 kids isolated from their folks at the US-Mexico fringe. The issue has likewise grabbed the eye of tech industry pioneers. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, for example, said Monday that his organization "is terrified by the coercive partition of youngsters from their families at the fringe." Airbnb's prime supporters additionally stood up, saying in an announcement on Twitter that the "US government needs to stop this shamefulness and rejoin these families." In January, Amazon's Jeff Bezos given $33 million to a grant subsidize for settlers brought into the US wrongfully as kids.
The assets brought up in the Facebook battle will profit RAICES, a Texas charitable that gives free legitimate administrations to migrants and displaced people. The organization didn't react to a demand for input however said in a Facebook post that "thanks is lacking for the work these assets will make conceivable. We know it will change lives."
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