Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world, calls on lawmakers to implement immigration reform and thanks members of Congress for bringing a bill to the floor that would create a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants, known as ‘dreamers’.
Bezos wrote in an Instagram post on Wednesday that his father, at the age of 16, came to the US alone from Cuba and succeeded because of ‘gravel, determination and the support and kindness’ of Americans.
“I am hopeful that policymakers will come together to create a path to citizenship for Dreamers and give priority to more judicious immigration reforms, such as reducing the backlog of the green card,” Bezos wrote. “Families across America deserve it.”
The U.S. Dream and Promise Act is one of two immigration reform bills Democrats are expected to continue this week. Immigration has been a very biased issue for years, and Democrats face a major task in making it all happen. They have a narrow majority in the House and control only the Senate because Vice President Kamala Harris can break a 50-50 tie.
Bezos was an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s immigration policy. After the Muslim ban in 2017, he told employees that Amazon was considering legal options, saying “this executive order is one we do not support.”
Here is the text of Bezos’ Instagram post:
“I want to thank the Congress leaders who will bring 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 does not speak English and did not have an easy path.What he did have was gravel, determination and the support and kindness of people here in the US who helped him.He received a scholarship to the college in Albuquerque, where he met on behalf of my father and families like mine, I hope policymakers will come together to create a path to citizenship for Dreamers and prioritize more reformed immigration reforms, such as reducing the backlog of the green card. in America it deserves it. ‘