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It wouldn't surprise me if Mr. Zuckerberg doesn't understand the federal government's constitutonally limited powers. And if such is the case, then it would be no surprise if he also doesn't understand that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration.

In fact, Thomas Jefferson had noted, in terms of the 10th Amendment nonotheless, that immigration is a state power issue.

"4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people," the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the -- day of July, 1798, intituled "An Act concerning aliens," which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force (emphasis added)." --Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.

So Mr. Zuckerberg's first step to reforming the so-called U.S. Immigration system is the following. Mr. Zuckerberg must work with his state and federal government representatives to propose an immigration amendment to the Constitution to the states as required by the Constitution's Article V. And if the states chose to ratify the amendment then the federal government would have the constitutonal authority that it needs to address immigration issues and Mr. Zuckerberg would be a hero.