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Google creates $4m ‘crisis campaign’ fund in response to Trump’s immigration clampdown

on Jan 30, 2017 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

Google has created a $4m humanitarian fund to assist organisations offering support to immigrants after dramatically recalling its staff from overseas stations in an effort to circumvent a travel ban imposed by president Trump on seven Muslim-majority countries.

This will be the largest sum of money ever awarded by the search giant to a humanitarian cause and will be distributed amongst four bodies; the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), International Rescue Committee (IRC) and UN High Commissioner for Refugees / UN Refugee Agency (UNHR).

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Source: The Drum