NBC News
By Matthew Deluca
October 29, 2015
An
immigration reform group co-founded by Facebook Chief Executive Mark
Zuckerberg called the mass deportation of illegal immigrants "absurd,"
after Zuckerberg was mentioned
during Wednesday evening's Republican presidential debate.
Republican
Donald Trump had initially denied that he called fellow candidate Sen.
Marco Rubio "Mark Zuckerberg's personal senator" — an assertion that
remained live on
Trump's campaign website as of Thursday afternoon. The website further
says that Rubio "has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women
and minorities."
FWD.us,
the advocacy group backed by Zuckerberg, responded in a statement that
didn't mention H-1Bs or Trump by name but did take on the Republican
candidate's immigration
proposals, which include mass deportation.
"Common
sense immigration reform is the only issue with broad bipartisan
support that would reduce the deficit by $820 billion," FWD.us president
Todd Schulte said in
a statement released after the debate. "It is astounding that some in a
party that espouses smaller government wants one big enough to deport
11 million undocumented immigrants and millions of their U.S. citizen
family members."
"Mass
deportation is absurd on its face and these policies are indefensible
on human, economic, and political grounds," Schulte said.
Immigration
in general and H-1B visas in particular can be contentious issues in
the tech world. Microsoft, Google and Facebook were among the top 10
entities lobbying
on immigration issues in 2015, according to data from the Center for
Responsive Politics. Tech companies are often among those who advocate
for changes in the process to grant H-1B visas, which are intended to
attract foreign workers in "specialty" occupations.
But the top recipients of the visas, which include Deloitte Consulting,
Cognizant Technology Solution and Tata Consultancy Services, aren't
those same companies familiar to many Americans.
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