The President Of Mark Zuckerberg's Immigration Reform Group Has Resigned
We saw this post on Politico, though Re/code's Kara Swisher was first to reveal Green's departure. According to a confidential email sent to Swisher, Green was likely "pushed" from his top spot.
Todd Schulte, executive director of FWD.us and former chief of staff at super PAC Priorities USA, will serve as acting president.
Green served as president of FWD.us since it was founded in 2013, but efforts to reform the laws surrounding immigration have since come to a grinding halt, as a result of congressional gridlock. President Barack Obama has said he will consider executive action on immigration after November's midterm elections.
"While FWD.us has achieved important milestones in the fight to reform immigration laws, Joe and the Board agreed a change in leadership was necessary," the company wrote in the blog post.
Tech companies have long advocated for improved immigration laws so they could obtain visas to hire more high-skilled workers from the global community. Some of the tech leaders involved in FWD.us include VCs John Doerr and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman; Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston; and Microsoft cofounder and chairman Bill Gates. You can see all the major contributors to FWD.us here.
We've reached out to FWD.us about the move, and we'll update the story as soon as we learn more.
Zuckerberg wrote a letter to major contributors of FWD.us, which follows below (courtesy of Kara Swisher):