Alexis Ohanian，Reddit的联合创始人，一位美国无证移民的儿子，奥哈尼安说，总统唐纳德·特朗普的移民禁令既“非常不美国化”，也“可能违反宪法”。他在一封致雷迪特社区的***中表达了自己的观点，这封信是由他长期执掌的“kn0thing”撰写的，并发布在雷迪特官方博客上。

这位科技界人士形容自己不仅是一名无证德国移民的儿子，而且是“逃离亚美尼亚种族灭绝的难民的曾孙”。奥哈尼安说，欢迎移民和难民这两个群体是美国的“不公平优势”，他引用了一个创业术语来形容自己在竞争中获胜没有他们，就没有我，也就没有Reddit。“我们是美国人，”他写道我们不要忘记，我们作为一个国家的繁荣，是因为我们是勇敢者的灯塔——疲劳者、穷人、狂风暴雨者。”

奥哈尼安只是最新一位对特朗普的移民禁令采取更强硬、更透明立场的科技行业人士，这一禁令导致美国机场一片混乱，全国各地发生了数十起**活动，新**的法律之争也愈演愈烈。

“没有他们，就没有我，也就没有雷迪特。”

硅谷和大科技产业的最初反应从不存在到不温不火到直言不讳。但在受到公众和众多知名政客、名人以及外国领导人的严厉批评之后，科技行业的大牌们现在表达了更直接的反对，不再站在发言人的发言后面。

今天早些时候，Twitter旗下的潜望镜（Periscope）在其移动应用程序的加载屏幕上添加了一条支持移民的信息，从特斯拉（Tesla）的埃隆•马斯克（Elon Musk）和微软（Microsoft）的萨蒂亚•纳德拉（Satya Nadella）到亚马逊（Amazon）首席执行官杰夫•贝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）和谷歌联合创始人谢尔盖•布林（Sergey Brin）等所有人都公开表示反对移民。

以下是Ohanian的***全文：

After two weeks abroad, I was looking forward to returning to the U.S. this weekend, but as I got off the plane at LAX on Sunday, I wasn't sure what country I was coming back to.

President Trump’s recent executive order is not only potentially unc***titutional, but deeply un-American. We are a nation of immigrants, after all. In the tech world, we often talk about a startup’s "unfair advantage" that allows it to beat compe*****s. Welcoming immigrants and refugees has been our country's unfair advantage, and coming from an immigrant family has been mine as an entrepreneur.

As many of you know, I am the son of an undocumented immigrant from Germany and the great grandson of refugees who fled the Armenian Genocide.

A little over a century ago, a Turkish soldier decided my great grandfather was too young to kill after cutting down his parents in front of him; instead of turning the sword on the boy, the soldier sent him to an orphanage. Many Armenians, including my great grandmother, found sanctuary in Aleppo, Syria—before the two reconnected and found their way to Ellis Island. Thankfully they weren't retained, rather they found this message:

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

My great grandfather didn’t speak much English, but he worked hard, and was able to get a job at Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company in Binghamton, NY. That was his family's golden door. And though he and my great grandmother had four children, all born in the U.S., immigration continued to reshape their family, generation after generation. The one son they had—my grandfather (here’s his AMA)—volunteered to serve in the Second World War and married a French-Armenian immigrant. And my mother, a native of Hamburg, Germany, decided to leave her friends, family, and education behind after falling in love with my father, who was born in San Francisco.

She got a work visa as an au pair in the U.S., uprooting her entire life for love in a foreign land. After she and my father married, she received a green card, which she kept for over a decade until she became a citizen. I grew up speaking German, but she insisted I focus on my English in order to be successful. She eventually got her citizenship and I’ll never forget her swearing in ceremony.

If you’ve never seen people taking the pledge of allegiance for the first time as U.S. Citizens, it will move you: a room full of people who can really appreciate what I was lucky enough to grow up with, simply by being born in Brooklyn. It thrills me to write reference letters for enterprising founders who are looking to get visas to start their companies here, to create value and jobs for these United States.

My forebears were brave refugees who found a home in this country. I’ve always been proud to live in a country that said yes to these shell-shocked immigrants from a strange land, that created a path for a woman who wanted only to work hard and start a family here.

Without them, there’s no me, and there’s no Reddit. We are Americans. Let’s not forget that we’ve thrived as a nation because we’ve been a beacon for the courageous—the tired, the poor, the tempest-tossed.

Right now, Lady Liberty’s lamp is dimming, which is why it's more important than ever that we speak out and show up to support all those for whom it shines—past, present, and future. I ask you to do this however you see fit, whether it's calling your representative (this works, it's how we defeated SOPA + PIPA), marching in protest, or voting, of course, and not just for Presidential electi***.

Our platform, like our country, thrives the more people and communities we have within it. Reddit, Inc. will continue to welcome all citizens of the world to our digital community and our office. And for all of you American redditors who are immigrants, children of immigrants, or children’s children of immigrants, we invite you to share your family’s story in the comments.