Posted on 07/08/2014 6:05:09 AM PDT by cotton1706
Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration reform push had all the capital, connections and star power to merit success.
But not even Silicon Valley could make this investment — and the Facebook founder’s first foray into national politics — pay off.
Tech leaders poured millions into FWD.us, an immigration advocacy group that has dominated ad buys, launched elaborate hackathons and coddled conservatives in an effort to revamp the country’s immigration system. It galloped into the debate with the tech industry’s classic certainty but wound up facing the same obstacles that have halted reform for decades.
Now, as hope for an overhaul fades, the group must reconcile Silicon Valley’s highflying ambition with the sobering lessons of Washington.
( “In Silicon Valley, if you don’t like the taxi industry, you start Uber, you go around it,” said FWD.us President Joe Green, who helped establish the group alongside Zuckerberg, his former Harvard roommate. “With politics you have to work through it, and doing that can be very challenging.”
FWD.us began with a lofty, if amorphous, goal: to ensure the success of America. But it also made initial high-profile stumbles with its ad strategy and, while trying to engage the tech community, ended up alienating some in it.
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This man and his company are evil.
He is not a man. We have few of them anymore. He is a metro-sexual millennial.
Butt...............with all the new illegal labor I can make more MUUNNNIEEE!!!!!
If the premise of your argument is based on insulting the citizenry, (ie jobs Americans cant/won’t do), then you will not get far.
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