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'We need to stop this policy right now,' Zuckerberg says, urging donations to reunite immigrants families
SAN FRANCISCO – In the largest single fundraiser ever on Facebook, a Silicon Valley couple has drummed up millions of dollars from tens of thousands of people to reunite immigrant parents with their children.
More than 140,000 people have contributed $5.9 million to a Facebook fundraiser set up four days ago by Charlotte and Dave Willner, whose efforts to aid families separated at the border struck a nerve with the American public.
Now, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is urging people to contribute even more money to organizations on the front lines in the escalating border crisis.
In a Facebook post Tuesday, Zuckerberg took aim at the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy, calling for donations to organizations such as the Texas Civil Rights Project and RAICES, a Texas nonprofit that helps families with legal advice and translation services.
"I've donated to them and I encourage you to as well," wrote Zuckerberg, who launched a personal fundraiser for the Texas Civil Rights Project. Zuckerberg and Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg also donated to the Willners' campaign.
"We need to stop this policy right now," Zuckerberg wrote, his comments coming as a defiant Trump insisted Congress come up with comprehensive immigration legislation and Senate Republicans pledged to pass a bill ending child separations at the border.
The Facebook CEO has squared off with Trump before on building a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico and over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that shields from deportation nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
All of the proceeds from the Willners' Facebook campaign "reunite an immigrant parent with their child" and benefits RAICES. Facebook, which launched fundraisers in 2017, waived fees last fall for nonprofit fundraisers.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/06/18/facebook-campaign-raising-millions-reunite-immigrants-children/712502002/