Billionaire Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced that he will be donating $33 million to create college scholarships for 1,000 DREAMers — illegal immigrants brought into America by their parents.
Politico reports that Bezos, the billionaire CEO of e-commerce giant Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, will be donating $33 million alongside his wife MacKenzie Bezos to create college scholarships for illegal immigrant DREAMers. Bezos donation is being made to TheDream.US, a nonprofit group founded by the former owner of the Washington Post, Don Graham. According to TheDream.US website, the group is “working to help over 4,000 highly motivated DREAMers graduate from college with career-ready degrees. DREAMers are immigrant youth who came to this country at a very young age without documentation.”
Bezos donation is expected to cover scholarships for approximately 1,000 illegal immigrants who are currently still in the country under the Obama-era DACA policy. Bezos himself is the son of a legal immigrant, the Amazon CEO’s father arrived in the United States from Cuba at the age of 16. Bezos commented on his donation to TheDream.US saying “MacKenzie and I are honored to be able to help today’s Dreamers by funding these scholarships.”
As the “Dreamers” as they’re known, are illegal immigrants, they are not eligible to receive financial aid from the federal government, TheDream.US aims to offer these students up to $33,000 in financial aid spread over four years of college study. Currently, the nonprofit group is funding approximately 2,840 illegal immigrants to study in the United States. Bezos has joined 100 CEO’s, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook, in signing an open letter to the government requesting an extension for DACA.
This is one of Bezos’ first forays into philanthropy, the CEO has donated to some causes in the past, at one point being honored by the Human Rights Campaign for donating $2.5 million to support marriage equality in Washington State in 2012, but overall his portfolio of charitable work is quite small. In June of 2017, Bezos took to Twitter to request suggestions from users on philanthropic efforts he should take part in. “I’m thinking I want much of my philanthropic activity to be helping people in the here and now — short term — at the intersection of urgent need and lasting impact,” stated Bezos.
Request for ideas… pic.twitter.com/j6D68mhseL
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) June 15, 2017
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A true commie piece of shit, thanks for nothing ass hole, fk you.
Jeff Bozos Announces…
The People In My Warehouses.
“Can Dream About Keeping Their Jobs”.
Oh… I forgot..
It was an accident.
I don’t buy anything from that dump any way. One more reason why.
POS traitor.
I was going to order the Raspberry Pi, but not now, never again, kiss my arse.
Usually a reasonably high I.Q. is required along with a substantial primary school education. He’ll spend all that money for little outcome. There will be no individual status report on the progress of these students over time.This is flash in the pan, political propaganda effort. Didn’t Oprah start a school in Africa?
No thought about helping fellow Americans in need?
Why not build these folks houses in Mexico or build a school in Mexico to help these people in their own country?
Bezos should be arrested and tried for aiding and abetting lawbreakers.
What’s the punishment for “aiding and abetting the enemy”?
That would be public hangings on pay per view on netflix.
I see marketing value here.
In fact I just put in for a domain name called…
I’m so sorry to say…this…
I thought I would have finally matured…in my life…
Not to get people to laugh…or giggle at my bathroom humor.
But I have a new internet domain now….
Called…
Drum roll pleeeez…
DickFlix…
You have to subscribe to it though….
Just in case you want to watch…treasonous dks… swinging from a rope..
And….if u r one of the first 100 subscribers. .. and put in the promo… code… flee…
I’ll give exclusive video footage… of blood coming out if their..
[Use Your Imagination fill in the blank].
This is a limited time offer…
So… call now…
Offer not…valid in D.C..or Palestine. ..
Some rules may apply.
What a piece of shit!
The guy invests money on robots and slave labor and then he invests money on illegal immigrants. Gee…I’m guessing this guy is out to kill America.