Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, urges lawmakers to push through immigration reform and thanks members of Congress for introducing a bill that would create a path to citizenship for millions of renowned immigrants As “Dreamers”.
In an Instagram post on Wednesday, Bezos wrote that his father came to the US from Cuba alone at the age of 16 and succeeded because of “persistence, determination and the support and kindness” of Americans.
“I hope policymakers will come together to create a path to citizenship for Dreamers and prioritize more common sense immigration reforms such as reducing the backlog on the green card,” Bezos wrote. “Families all over America deserve this.”
The American Dream and Promise Act is one of two immigration reform bills Democrats are expected to pass this week. Immigration has been a very partisan issue for years and Democrats face a tough task to get it over with. 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, saying, “This executive order is one that we do not support.”
Here’s the text from Bezos’ Instagram post:
“I want to thank the Congress leaders who will bring the Dreamers legislation to the House tomorrow. My father was a” Dreamer “before there was such a thing. He was 16 when he came to America, all by himself, from Cuba. He didn’t speak English. and had no easy path. What he did have was persistence, determination, and the support and kindness of the people here in the US who helped him. He received a scholarship to college in Albuquerque, where he met my mother. 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 common sense immigration reforms, such as reducing the backlog of the green card Families across America deserve this. “