Mark Zuckerberg, wife donate $5 million for undocumented college students, Facebook organizer Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, reported Wednesday that they gave $5 million to offer grants to undocumented youngsters in the Bay Area.
The gift will subsidize grants for more than 400 purported Dreamers, who are in the U.S. without approval in the wake of going to the nation as youngsters, through a project called TheDream.US. Propelled a year ago, TheDream.US offers cash for Dreamers to seek after advanced education.
"America was established as a country of foreigners," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. "We should welcome savvy and persevering youngsters from each country, and to help everybody in our general public accomplish their maximum capacity. In the event that we help more youthful settlers climb the step to new open doors, then our nation will gain more prominent ground."
TheDream.US gives up to $25,000 to four-year universities or up to $12,500 for partner's degrees. To be qualified for TheDream.US grants, Dreamers must can stay in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals system, called DACA, or Temporary Protected Status. More than 660,000 Dreamers have been allowed DACA, which permits them to work lawfully and, in many states, to get driver's licenses.
The gift is not Zuckerberg's first invasion into migration issues. He helped to establish the gathering FWD.US in 2013 to push for migration change in Congress. In an opinion piece attached to the dispatch, Zuckerberg expounded on an understudy who let him know he couldn't attend a university on the grounds that he was undocumented.
TheDream.US was established by Donald Graham, CEO of the Graham Holdings Company; his wife, writer Amanda Bennett; lobbyist Henry Muñoz; and previous Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez.
Graham and Bennett, alongside Pershing Square Capital Management CEO Bill Ackman, promised in May to match gifts to the gathering up to $30 million
The gift will subsidize grants for more than 400 purported Dreamers, who are in the U.S. without approval in the wake of going to the nation as youngsters, through a project called TheDream.US. Propelled a year ago, TheDream.US offers cash for Dreamers to seek after advanced education.
"America was established as a country of foreigners," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. "We should welcome savvy and persevering youngsters from each country, and to help everybody in our general public accomplish their maximum capacity. In the event that we help more youthful settlers climb the step to new open doors, then our nation will gain more prominent ground."
TheDream.US gives up to $25,000 to four-year universities or up to $12,500 for partner's degrees. To be qualified for TheDream.US grants, Dreamers must can stay in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals system, called DACA, or Temporary Protected Status. More than 660,000 Dreamers have been allowed DACA, which permits them to work lawfully and, in many states, to get driver's licenses.
The gift is not Zuckerberg's first invasion into migration issues. He helped to establish the gathering FWD.US in 2013 to push for migration change in Congress. In an opinion piece attached to the dispatch, Zuckerberg expounded on an understudy who let him know he couldn't attend a university on the grounds that he was undocumented.
TheDream.US was established by Donald Graham, CEO of the Graham Holdings Company; his wife, writer Amanda Bennett; lobbyist Henry Muñoz; and previous Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez.
Graham and Bennett, alongside Pershing Square Capital Management CEO Bill Ackman, promised in May to match gifts to the gathering up to $30 million
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