'This is an opportunity to bring in new talent. 'A hackathon is a time-honored, Valley tech tradition,' he said. 'It has bipartisan support, it's a win-win issue for the economy, for families and for our country.'ĭrew Houston, the founder and CEO of Dropbox, said combining dreamers, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, with a hackathon is the manifestation of the way many in Silicon Valley see the immigration issue. 'Congress had the budget and government shutdown stuff but we want to return the nation's attention to immigration reform,' Green told BuzzFeed. The event is announced at a time when the country has had all of its attention focused on the government shutdown and budget fight in Congress, while the momentum for immigration reform has stalled in the House after a bipartisan bill passed in the Senate.įWD.us founder Joe Green said the organization is interested in ramping up the attention and appetite for reform.

Mark Zuckerberg will join the founders of other top tech companies who are part of his immigration reform advocacy organization FWD.us at a 'dreamer' hackathon, to advise undocumented youth on tech tools and projects to advance the prospect of reform, at LinkedIn's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Nov.

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