Jeff Bezos, along with his wife MacKenzie, announced on Friday that they’d be donating a $33 million dollar grant to the country’s largest scholarship program for “Dreamers,” a group of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. The program helps roughly 700,000 Dreamers, but the Trump administration is currently phasing it out. Bezos also noted in the statement why this cause is important to him and his wife ― highlighting that his adopted father was an immigrant who fled from Cuba. “My dad came to the U.S. when he was 16 as part of Operation Pedro Pan,” Bezos said. MacKenzie and I are honored to be able to help today’s Dreamers by funding these scholarships.”

Source: Huffington Post January 12, 2018 16:03 UTC