US Tech Giants Slam Trump’s Policy to Separate Migrant Families
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook & Twitter’s Jack Dorsey are among those who have criticised the policy.
CEOs of several US-based tech giants on Tuesday, 19 June, lashed out at the Trump administration’s policy to separate migrant children from their families, in a bid to enforce a ‘zero tolerance’ attitude towards illegal border crossing.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a post on the social media site, appealed for donations towards organisations like ‘Texas Civil Rights Project’ and ‘RAICES’, which were working towards helping families at the border.
In an interview with the Ireland-based newspaper The Irish Times, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook termed the separation of the children from immigrant parents at the US-Mexico border as ‘inhumane’, and promised to be a ‘constructive voice’ in ending the issue.
According to Reuters, Cook, in his interview to the newspaper, said:
He added that as a good citizen, one should participate, and not “just sit on the sideline and yell or complain.”
“That will be the approach we will take here. This one in particular is just heartbreaking and tragic,” Cook said.
Meanwhile, Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter and Square took to the micro-blogging site to share his grievances over the immigration policy.
Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki too shared a link on Twitter, urging people to help in every way they could.
Tech giant Microsoft, in a statement, condemned the policy, stating that it was “dismayed” by the separation that was being enforced by the administration on the families.
The statement, accessed by CNBC, read:
According to NBC News, the Department of Health and Human Services had 11,785 minors under its care as of Monday.
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