Tag: DACA
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Jeff Bezos donates $33 million for DACA scholarships
By Barry Eitel, San Francisco: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced Friday that he and his wife MacKenzie are donating $33 million to fund college scholarships for undocumented immigrants. Bezos said the grant will allow some 1,000 undocumented high school students to attend college. The students will all be Dreamers, meaning they have Deferred Action for…
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Attorneys general sue Trump over ending immigrants protection programme
Washington : A coalition of 16 US attorneys general has sued President Donald Trump’s administration’s decision to end a programme which shields more than 800,000 undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children, from being deported. The coalition filed the suit on Wednesday in a New York federal court against the decicion to end…