Recode Decode: How Silicon Valley is responding to the immigration crisis

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Charlotte and Dave Willner, creators of the hugely successful Facebook fundraising campaign called “Reunite an immigrant parent with their child,” talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how they raised more than $20 million in one week for RAICES, a legal services nonprofit in Texas. Although the Willners originally set out to raise only $1,500, they say RAICES can and will use all the money it can get as it grapples with the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that separated immigrant children from their parents. Later in the show, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky (who is Dave Willner’s boss) joins Swisher in studio to talk about the factors that tech executives must weigh if they want to be involved in political issues. Chesky first took a stand after the Muslim travel ban in early 2017, but speaking out about the immigration crisis was easier because, “I’m already on the wrong side of the White House.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to Zippercouter, the presenting sponsor of Reco Decode, you know what's not smart?
0:05.4	Wearing a jacket that says, I really don't care to the site of a humanitarian crisis
0:09.6	when you're the first lady of the United States of America.
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0:37.8	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of Reco.
0:40.3	You may know me as a granddaughter of immigrants, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening
0:44.9	to Reco Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:48.6	Today we're doing something a little different on Reco Decode over the course of two interviews.
0:52.5	We're going to talk about the Trump administration's appalling zero tolerance immigration policy
0:57.0	and how it intersects with the tech industry.
0:59.4	Later in the show, I'll be talking to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky.
1:02.7	But first I'm here with two people I really never met, but I'mire completely Charlotte
1:07.4	and Dave Wilner.
1:08.5	They created a fundraising campaign on Facebook called Reunite, an immigrant parent with their
1:12.8	child.
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