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19 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Google has spent years and years making significant political donations to legislators working to get Dreamers—including these Google employees—deported.
Martha McSally proposed withholding health care from the same undocumented Google employees that Pichai is now tweeting about. Google gave her the biggest check ($5000) they're allowed to write by law.
There are hundreds of such donations from Google to the most anti-immigrant legislators in Congress. No amount of tweeting in 2021 will undo them. You can search my account for "Google gave" to find a bunch of examples of Google's worst political giving. twitter.com/search?q=from%…
If you work at Google—well, you're smart, and I'm sure you'll find a reason why you bear no culpability here
Pichai in happier times, pictured with the winner of the Internet Freedom Award (awarded by an industry lobbying group that included Google). But sure, yeah, now it's all about the Dreamers

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