Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, urges lawmakers to pass immigration reform and thanked members of Congress for bringing a bill to the road to citizenship for millions. of immigrants known as “Dreamers”.
In an Instagram post on Wednesday, Bezos wrote that his father came to the United States only from Cuba, at the age of 16, and succeeded because of the “care, determination and support and kindness” of the Americans.
“I hope that policy makers will unite to create a path to citizenship for the Dreamers and to prioritize more common immigration reforms, such as reducing green card arrears,” Bezos wrote. “Families across America deserve this.”
The American Dream and Promise Act is one of two bills on immigration reform that Democrats are expected to promote this week. Immigration has been an extremely partisan issue for years, and Democrats face an important task in getting anything. They have a narrow majority in the House and control the Senate only because Vice President Kamala Harris can break a 50-50 tie.
Bezos was an open critic of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. After the 2017 Muslim ban, he told employees that Amazon is considering legal options and said that “this executive order is one we do not support.”
Here is the text of Bezos’ Instagram post:
“I want to thank the congressional leaders who will bring the Dreamers legislation to the 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 didn’t speak English and he didn’t have An easy path, what he had was screaming, determination and the support and kindness of the people here in the United States who helped him, he received a scholarship to college in Albuquerque, where my mother met, on behalf of my father and families. like mine, I hope that political decision-makers will unite to create a path to citizenship for the Dreamers and to prioritize more common immigration reforms, such as reducing green card arrears. thing. “