Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world, is urging lawmakers to pass immigration reform and thanked members of Congress for presenting a bill that would create a citizenship path for millions of immigrants known as ” Dreamers”.
In an Instagram post on Wednesday, Bezos wrote that his father came from Cuba to the United States alone at the age of 16 and was successful due to the “courage, determination and support and kindness” of Americans.
“I am hopeful that lawmakers will come together to create a path to citizenship for Dreamers and prioritize common sense immigration reforms, such as reducing green card accumulation,” wrote Bezos. “Families across America deserve this.”
The American Dream and Promise Act is one of two immigration reform projects that Democrats are expected to advance this week. Immigration has been a highly partisan issue for years, and Democrats face a major task to get everything approved. They have a narrow majority in the House and only control the Senate because Vice President Kamala Harris can break a 50-50 tie.
Bezos was an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. After the Muslim ban in 2017, he told employees that Amazon was considering legal options and said that “this executive order is one that we do not support.”
Here is the text of Bezos’s Instagram post:
“I want to thank the leaders of Congress who are going to bring the Dreamers legislation to the House floor tomorrow. My father was a” Dreamer “before there was such a thing. He was 16 when he came to America, alone, from Cuba. He did not he spoke english and he didn’t have an easy way. What he did have was determination, determination and the support and kindness of people here in the United States who helped him. He received a scholarship to go to college in Albuquerque, where he met my mother. On behalf of my father and families like mine, I hope that lawmakers will come together to create a path to citizenship for Dreamers and to prioritize more sensible immigration reforms, such as reducing green card accumulation. deserve it. “